The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has released the list of all the qualified candidates vying for national executive positions in the upcoming December 17, 2022 congress.
In all, 81 persons have qualified to contest the upcoming elections slated be held in Accra later this month.
The 14 positions that are up for grabs in the national contest are Chairman, Vice-Chairman, General Secretary and Deputy General Secretary, Youth Organizer, Women's Organizer.
The rest are Women’s Organiser and Deputy Women’s Organiser, Youth Organiser and Deputy Youth Organiser, Zongo Caucus Coordinator and National Executive Committee members.
The key positions that would be hotly contested are the Chairman, General Secretary, National Organiser, Women’s Organiser and Youth Organiser.
For the National Chairman position, four stalwarts of the party would lock horns in that contest.
They are the incumbent National Chairman, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, the incumbent General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia; a former Greater Accra Regional Minister, Nii Armah Ashitey, and a former Deputy Minister of Works and Housing, Samuel Yaw Adusei.
Those who will slug it out for the General Secretary position, are the current Director of Elections, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah; a former Minister and MP for Ketu South, Fifi Fiavi Kwetey, and the incumbent Deputy General Secretary, Dr Peter Boamah Otokunor.
For the National Organiser position, four persons are contesting.
They are Joseph Yamin, Sidii Abubakar Musah, Solomon Yaw Nkansah and the incumbent, Joshua Hamidu Akamba.
No other person filed to contest the position of Communication Officer apart from the incumbent, Sammy Gyamfi.
CHAIRMAN
SAMUEL YAW ADUSEI - 1
JOHNSON ASEIDU NKETIA - 2
SAMUEL OFOSU AMPOFO - 3
NII ARMAH ASHIETEY - 4
VICE CHAIRMAN
SHERIF ABDUL-NASIRU - 1
ABANGA YAKUBU ALHASSAN - 2
DR. SHERRY AYITTEY - 3
SETH OFORI OHENE - 4
AWUDU SOFO AZOURKA - 5
ALHAJI AMADU B. SOROGHO - 6
ALHAJI HABIBU ADRAMANI - 7
EVELYN ENYONAM MENSAH - 8
GENERAL SECRETARY
ELVIS AFRIYIE ANKRAH - 1
FIFI FIAVI KWETEY - 2
DR. PETER BOAMAH OTOKUNOR - 3
DEPUTY GENERAL SECRETARY
FRANCIS LANME GURIBE - 1
CATHERINE DEYNU - 2
BARBARA SERWAA ASAMOAH - 3
GBANDE FOYO MUSTAPHA - 4
KWAME ZU - 5
BRADI PAUL OPATA - 6
EVANS AMOO - 7
NATIONAL ORGANIZER
JOSHUA HAMIDU AKAMBA - 1
HENRY OSEI AKOTO - 2
MAHDI MOHAMMED GIBRILL - 3
SIDII ABUBAKARI - 4
SOLOMON YAW NKANSAH - 5
CHIEF HAMILTON BINEY NIXON - 6
JOSEPH YAMMIN - 7
DEPUTY NATIONAL ORGANIZER
KOBBY BARLON 1
HABIB MOHAMMED TAHIRU 2
ELIKEM ERIC KEVIN KWAME KOTOKO 3
ALHAJI YAW KUNDOW 4
COMMUNICATION OFFICER
SAMMY GYAMFI
DEPUTY COMMUNICATION OFFICER
GODWIN AKO GUNN - 1
ADONGO ATULE JACOB - 2
MALIK BASINTALE - 3
KWAKU BOAHEN ANTHONY - 4
MOHAMMED NAZIRU - 5
YOUTH ORGANIZER
BROGYA GENFI - 1
GEORGE OPARE ADDO - 2
DEPUTY YOUTH ORGANIZER
OSMAN ABDULAI AYARIGA - 1
RUTH DELA SEDDOH - 2
BRIGHT NUDOKPO HONU - 3
SULEMANA ABDUL KARIM - 4
MOHAMMED ABUBAKARI SADIQ GOMBILLA - 5
KABIRU AHMED - 6
ERIC DADSON - 7
PENDILOCK OWUSU ASARE - 8
OBED OPINTAN - 9
JUDE SEKLEY - 10
WOMEN ORGANIZER
MARGARET ANSEI- 1
DR. HANNA LOUISA BISIW - 2
DEPUTY WOMEN ORGANIZER
ABIGAIL AKWABEA ELORM MENSAH - 1
FELICIA DZIFA TEGAH - 2
JESSIE ADAMS - 3
HAJIA ALIJATA SULEMANA - 4
ZONGO CAUCUS CO-ORDINATOR-
ABASS ZULKARNAIN KAMBARI - 1
HON. ALHAJI BABANLAMIE ABU SADAT - 2
MAMAH MOHAMMED COLE YOUNGER - 3
ABDUL-AZIZ MOHAMMED - 4
YAKUBU MAHMUD MUDI - 5
NEC MEMBERS
EPHRAIM NII TAN SACKEY - 1
PEREZ FERNANDEZ ARMAH LARYEA - 2
ISSAHAKU ISSAH ADEL - 3
REV. IRENE SENA AGBLEKE - 4
ABDULLAH FARRAKHAN ISHAQ - 5
MALIK ADAMA - 6
VICTORIA KUMA-MINTAH - 7
EMMANUEL EWOENAM YAO ADZOME-DZOKANDA - 8
CECILIA N. ASAGA - 9
EBENEZER EFFAH HACKMAN - 10
NAJAWA ALHAJI ISSAH - 11
STEPHEN LADZEDO - 12
ANITA ANNAN - 13
RANSFORD CHATMAN VANNI-AMOAH - 14
THOMAS AYISI KUMAH - 15
WONDER VICTOR KUTOR - 16
MOHAMMED MAMUDU - 17
ARABA TAGOE - 18
FAMOUS KWESI KUADUGAH - 19