NPP maintains ban on proxy voting for 2026 Presidential Primary

 

 

 

 

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has reaffirmed its decision to maintain the ban on proxy voting in the party’s 2026 presidential primary, despite receiving several petitions from party members calling for a review.

Chairman of the NPP’s Presidential Elections Committee, Joe Osei Owusu, announced the decision after the committee concluded its consultations on concerns raised by various stakeholders within the party.

 

 

, Joe Osei Owusu,

He said the committee had thoroughly examined all petitions but determined that upholding the ban was necessary to ensure a transparent, credible, and incident-free election.

“The earlier published position or guideline on proxy voting—we’ve listened to all kinds of petitions. We’ve read the petitions presented by sections of the party. And after listening to all that, we came to a conclusion that for the sake of conducting an election that is incident-free, an election that is respected, an election in which it’s accessible to all, a very credible election, that provision or that ban should be maintained,” Joe Osei Owusu stated.

“We will still not have proxy voting in this 2026 presidential primaries,” he added.

The decision means that all delegates eligible to vote in the upcoming presidential primaries must be physically present at their designated polling centres to cast their ballots.
Source:Abigail Arthur