The Communications Minister, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has predicted a win for Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia in the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) flagbearership election.

While endorsing Vice President Bawumia as the party’s next flagbearer after casting her ballot in the primary, she said “the party’s best fortunes lie with Dr Bawumia.”

She added that she expects her preferred candidate to win by a margin not less than 80%.

She therefore urged the delegates to vote wisely to ensure the best person wins to lead the party in the 2024 election.

Asked what makes Dr Bawumia the best candidate to lead the party, she said “We are all very much aware that this party stands at a crossroads; we have the colossus leading us for as long as we can remember thus from 2007 till date.

“Now it is time for the baton to change hands. And we are determined that Nana Akufo-Addo will hand over to the NPP president so we need to make the strategic choices that will enable us to have a flagbearer who can lead us to get the results we anticipate .. We’ve assessed all the candidates and the only person who can do that for us is Dr Bawumia,” she added.

Asked if she expects the Assin Central MP, Kennedy Agyapong to pull a surprise in the Ablekuma West Constituency, the MP for the area noted that “at the end of the day, everybody will see their smoothness level.”

According to Madam Owusu-Ekuful, the 'kingmakers' in the constituency have pledged their alliance to Dr Bawumia and that they are for the 'DMB project'.

"I know what the kingmakers in this constituency have told me. We have had an extensive conversation with them and they've told us that they are fully aligned and behind the DMB project. So we are just waiting to see by what margin he wins in this constituency," she said.

The NPP is oting to elect its flagbearer for the 2024 general elections.

This critical poll involves over 200,000 party delegates and is seen as a pivotal step in breaking the eight-year election cycle pattern in Ghana.

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The delegates, who make up the Electoral College comprise Members of Parliament, Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives, ministers and their deputies, foundation members of the NPP, members of the party’s National Council and patrons and council of elders.

The rest are regional party officers, constituency officers, constituency patrons, constituency elders, electoral area coordinators, polling station executives, overseas branches and members of Tescon, the tertiary students’ wing of the party.

The four contenders in the race are Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, Assin Central MP, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, former Food and Agric Minister, Dr Owusu Akoto Afriyie, and former MP, Francis Addai-Nimoh.