The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has officially launched its campaign to capture the Ayawaso East seat, formally naming Baba Ali Yussif as its parliamentary contender for the high-stakes by-election scheduled for Tuesday, March 3, 2026.
The decision, which General Secretary Justin Kodua Frimpong announced in a press statement on Monday, February 9, 2026, comes after a strategic consensus-building activity aimed at forming a powerful front against a divided opposition.
The decision to nominate Baba Ali Yussif—the party’s current Constituency Secretary—follows the National Executive Committee (NEC) tasking a high-powered Candidate Search Committee, led by former General Secretary John Boadu, to find a candidate capable of pulling off an upset in the historically pro-NDC constituency.
The acclamation event was held on Sunday, February 8, 2026, during an enlarged Constituency Executive Committee meeting and Delegates Conference.
The NPP’s swift and unified coronation of Baba Ali Yussif contrasts sharply with the turmoil presently surrounding the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the same district.
While the NPP has united behind a single candidate, the NDC is plagued by a bribery and vote-buying controversy.
In his official statement, Justin Kodua Frimpong asked party members to put aside internal disputes and focus on the March 3 elections.
The NPP is positioning this by-election not simply as a political struggle, but as a chance to give excellent representation to a constituency that has been at the heart of recent political scandal.
As a result, the party urges all NPP members, supporters, and sympathizers to rally strongly behind Baba Ali Yussif, who provides the party’s greatest chance of winning… to help restore hope, effective representation, and prosperity to the constituency, according to the statement.
As the Electoral Commission prepares for the March 3rd showdown, attention now turns to if the NPP’s message of renewed optimism can break the NDC’s long-held stranglehold on Ayawaso East.
Source: myjoyonline.com
