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About 200 presbyters and catechists have gathered for the five day event themed "Cleanliness is next to Godliness," with the Volta Regional Minister urging the church to take a more active role in the national sanitation agenda.
The incumbent polled 215 of 387 votes cast at Tamale to fend off "Dagomba Boy" Amadu Inusah and two other challengers, and used his acceptance speech to call for internal unity ahead of the 2028 general election.
The former Health Minister polled 488 votes to Boye's 173 at the WAEC Hall in Tema, taking over from Divine Otoo Agorhom, and immediately pledged a "24-hour campaign" of grassroots mobilization to help the NPP reclaim the 21 parliamentary seats it won in 2016.
Odeneho Kwaku Appiah polled 658 votes to Dr Henry Kwabena Kokofu's 269 at Jubilee Park in Kumasi, with delegates from 45 of the region's 47 constituencies taking part after two constituencies were excluded over unresolved disputes.
Esibu polled 278 votes against the incumbent's 161, headlining a set of regional elections in which several sitting officers, including Secretary Takyi Mensah and Women's Organizer Charlotte Adwo Antwi, held on to their positions.
Kwame Baffoe polled 201 votes to see off Joseph Mensah and two other challengers at Baakuniaba, near Sunyani, as the party elected a full slate of regional executives under tight security.
Voting closed at 3:15pm at Tema Community 5, but a dispute over how ballots should be counted held up proceedings for about an hour before party officers, the Electoral Commission and police stepped in to clear the way for counting to begin.
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