{"id":83104,"date":"2025-07-30T01:11:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T01:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=83104"},"modified":"2025-07-30T01:11:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T01:11:48","slug":"npp-opens-flagbearer-nominations-for-2028-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=83104","title":{"rendered":"NPP opens flagbearer nominations for 2028 elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'>\n                <div class=\"twp-read-time\">\n                \t<i class=\"booster-icon twp-clock\"><\/i> <span>Read Time:<\/span>39 Second                <\/div>\n\n            <\/div><div>\n<p><strong>The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has opened nominations for presidential aspirants as it begins the process of electing a flagbearer for the 2028 general elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The nomination window, which opened on Tuesday, July 29, 2025, will close on Thursday, August 28, 2025. This timeline was announced in an official statement signed by the party\u2019s General Secretary, Justin Kodua Frimpong.<\/p>\n<p>In what appears to be a strategic build-up to a hotly contested primary, the NPP is requiring all prospective aspirants to pay a non-refundable application fee of GH\u20b5100,000 and a filing fee of GH\u20b5500,000 \u2014 both payable via banker\u2019s draft to the party\u2019s national headquarters in Accra. 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This timeline was announced in an official statement signed by the party\u2019s General Secretary, Justin Kodua Frimpong.<\/p>\n<p>In what appears to be a strategic build-up to a hotly contested primary, the NPP is requiring all prospective aspirants to pay a non-refundable application fee of GH\u20b5100,000 and a filing fee of GH\u20b5500,000 \u2014 both payable via banker\u2019s draft to the party\u2019s national headquarters in Accra. An additional development levy, yet to be disclosed, will also be mandatory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feed-readmore\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.graphic.com.gh\/news\/politics\/npp-opens-flagbearer-nominations-suspends-campaigns-to-focus-on-akwatia-by-election.html\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_2277560469115098_106292521332774":"","twitter_aToxNzczMzI3Njk4OTg4ODUxMjAxOw==_1773327698988851200":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}