Joe Ghartey Opts Out Of NPP race

Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joe Ghartey has dropped out of the main opposition New Patriotic Party’s flagbearership race.

The former Attorney General is one of five aspirants who qualified for the second phase of the primaries after Sunday’s super delegates’ congress, which reduced the number of seven contestants to five.

About 141,000 Delegates will elect one of the five as a flagbearer for the 2016 elections at a grand congress scheduled for October 18.

Joe Ghartey, in an interview on Sky FM in the Western Region said “I am not going to contest in the October 18 elections."

He said he is rather going to work for the NPP to come back to power in 2016.

Joe Ghartey got 22 votes representing 7% of the total valid votes cast at Sunday’s Super Delegates Congress which saw Nana Addo win with 81%.

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