Former President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kwesi Nyantakyi, has been hospitalised ahead of the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) parliamentary election in the Ejisu constituency of the Ashanti Region.

According to reports, Mr Nyantakyi, who is among the nine candidates contesting the election, suffered stomach pains while in a meeting at Akyawkrom, a suburb of Ejisu, on Friday evening.

It is alleged that the former GFA president's illness may have been caused by not eating all day, given his busy schedule leading up to Saturday’s polls.

Further sources indicated that Mr Nyantakyi allegedly stumbled, before being supported and subsequently taken to the hospital for treatment.

He was admitted at the Legacy Hospital at Asokore Mampong, where he has been receiving treatment since Friday evening.

Meanwhile, the NPP in the Ejisu constituency of the Ashanti Region is set for the party's primary election to elect a parliamentary candidate for the constituency by-election scheduled for Tuesday, April 30.

Nine persons – five men and four women, are contesting. They are;

1. Kwabena Boateng
2. Dr. Evans Duah
3. Klinsman Karikari Mensah
4. Helena Mensah
5. Jacqueline Abena Pokua Amoah-Boaitey
6. Portia Baffoe Abronye
7. Kwesi Nyantakyi
8. Aaron Prince Duah
9. Yaa Akyawmaa Aboagye

The by-election at Ejisu has been occasioned by the death of the NPP Member of Parliament, John Kumah.

John Kumah who was also a Deputy Finance Minister, died on Thursday, March 7, at the age of 45.