NPP DECIDES: Francis Addai-Nimoh to file nomination forms on Friday
The New Trust Newspaper online has gathered that Ing.Francis Addai-Nimoh is expected to submit his nomination forms on Friday,23rd June,2023 at the Party’s National headquarters,Accra.
Hon Francis Addai-Nimoh,the former Member of Parliament (MP) for Asante Mampong offers energy, youth, neutrality, a unifying force and the ‘David’ factor in the contest to become the flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the 2016 presidential election.
Below is the profile of Hon.Ign.Francis Addai-Nimoh
Mr Francis Addai-Nimoh, the legislator from Asante Mampong in Ashanti Region, is therefore, in a historic campaign that is daring the established names and faces to become NPP’s flag bearer.
The 49-year-old civil engineer and two-term Member of Parliament for Asante Mampong is contesting the lead candidate and two-time presidential candidate of the party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, and the twice flag-bearer aspirant of the party, Mr John Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen.
“I recognise the pedigree of the contestants in the race, but I also recognise my own potential as a leader and I believe the party may have to look at a potential over pedigree to secure power next time,” Mr Addai-Nimoh asserted.
To him “the NPP is at a crossroads and the direction it turns would determine how the party fares in 2016. I may not have been a very visible face in the party’s frontline but I have been working hard behind the scenes for results,” he said.
Vast knowledge
Currently the ranking member of the parliamentary sub-committee on environment, science and technology, Mr Addai-Nimoh comes across as a person with an impressive knowledge of the national geography, the people, cultures and the opportunities that lie in even the remotest parts of the country.
According to him, he owes much of such knowledge to the time when he was in charge of monitoring and evaluation at the Ministry of Roads and Highways when his job sent him to the ends of Ghana’s boundaries.
He is the only aspirant to have not held any public position in an NPP administration, and he believes this makes him stand out as a unique candidate with a promising position to be selected.
His upbringing and education, including the ‘O’ Level days at Navrongo Secondary School in the Upper East Region, have inculcated in him the values of selflessness, credibility and concern for all.
A second degree holder in public administration, it is his core belief that “when you are able to feed the people, you liberate their minds to think about other matters that bring about development.”
His key goal is to use his vast credentials to solve the basic problems of the country by working to ensure food sufficiency and food security for all Ghanaians.
Leadership qualities
He has served as Member, Poverty Reduction Committee of Parliament (2013), Vice- President, Global Legislators Organisation for Balanced Environment (GLOBE), Ghana Chapter, Parliament of the Republic of Ghana (2014 and running); Member, Select Committee on Environment, Science & Technology, Parliament of the Republic of Ghana (2009-2013), Member, Special Budget Committee of Parliament (2009– 2013) ; Vice -Chairman, Methodist Men’s Fellowship (Adjirigano Branch), Methodist Church, Ghana (2012- 2014).
Others are Students’ Representative Council (SRC) President (1991-1992), Central Committee Member, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (KNUST), and had also served on the National Union of Ghana Students.
A unifier
He considers himself as a unifier. “I am a unifier, a neutral and a David in the NPP, in that I am the youngest of the three aspirants just like David in the Bible and I will end the division in NPP,” he stated.
“There comes a point in time when a leader emerges depending on the prevailing circumstances; that time has come within the NPP for a new leadership and redirection to prosecute the agenda of winning political power and breathing new life into the socio-economic development of the country,” he told the Daily Graphic.
Internal wranglings in NPP
Mr Addai Nimoh said the best way to end the internal wranglings is to vote against the two leading contenders, Nana Akufo-Addo and Alan Kyerematen, come October 18 when the party goes to conference to elect the flag bearer. He added that he was confident the delegates would elect the right person for the party.
As a staunch Methodist, the man who hails from Nyinanpong in the Mampong Constituency and is married to Stella Addai-Nimoh by whom he has three children says he is imbued with qualities of discipline, humility and honesty.
Delegates must, therefore, vote for him to ensure party cohesion and to clinch power for the NPP in 2016,he requested.
Source: GraphicOnline
