President Nana Akufo-Addo has expressed his commitment to backing any aspiring flagbearer from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) who can effectively unite the party and secure victory in the upcoming presidential elections next year.

In a tweet on Wednesday, August 2, he disclosed that he, like all polling station executives nationwide, has the privilege to vote for a single aspirant.

This statement was made during his meeting with NPP communicators at the Jubilee House.

I have just one vote, the same as any polling station executive anywhere in the country, and I will cast that vote for an aspirant who, I believe, can best unite the Party, and, above all, who can win the presidential election of 7th December 2024, and inflict a third successive… pic.twitter.com/vbLXXyUxSi— Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) August 2, 2023

President Akufo-Addo noted that he will cast his vote for an aspirant who he believes can “inflict a third successive defeat on the perennial NDC Presidential Candidate, John Dramani Mahama.”

Furthermore, he highlighted the historical precedent of the ruling NPP, emphasizing that the party's tradition has consistently rejected the notion of a president imposing a candidate. He underlined that the NPP has always steered clear of cultivating a cult of personality.

“The history of the NPP tells us that no President can foist a candidate on the party against its wishes. The NPP is not that kind of party. We have never subscribed to a cult of personality,” he said on Wednesday, August 2, when he met NPP communicators who called on him at Jubilee House.

“Indeed, our highly-respected former President, the first NPP President, John Agyekum Kufuor, in the aftermath of my election as NPP Presidential Candidate, by the 2007 National Congress, told the Congress that ‘the party has its spirit’, a spirit that cannot be ignored.”