Catherine Abelema Afeku addressing the gathering
A former Member of Parliament (MP) for Evalue-Ajomoro-Gwira Constituency in the Western Region, Catherine Abelema Afeku has officially declared her intention to contest the National Women’s Organiser position of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) come the next national officers’ election of the party.
According to her, the party needs a dynamic woman who is proactive, affable, hardworking, respectful and who has been tried and tested to take over as the next national women’s organiser of the NPP, to help the party recapture power in 2028.
She has, therefore, appealed to the party’s executives at all levels and all NPP activists to support her bid.
The former Tourism Minister made the declaration at a special get-together she organised for hundreds of women, including queen mothers, women groups, and members of NPP women’s wing in the constituency.
The event was to mark the celebration of Mother’s Day yesterday.
Madam Afeku pledged to work hard with the rest of the next NPP national executives when given the nod, and called on the chiefs and people of Nzema and the Western Region as a whole to pray and support her to achieve the aim.
She indicated that come what may, the NPP will win the 2028 general election, but the party would need a dynamic woman to lead in mobilising women nationwide to vote massively for the NPP.
“Currently, I am the only one from the Western and Western North Regions who has expressed interest in the position.
“I believe that since the best comes from the West, Afeku would emerged as the next NPP National Women’s Organiser and help the party win the next general election,” she pointed out.
Meanwhile, a cross section of the women who attended the programme said Madam Afeku has what it takes to unite the women in the party from the grassroots to national level.
According to them, even though there are other equally qualified women, Madam Afeku stands taller among them and, therefore, deserves to be given the nod.
“Afeku would help to ensure the party functions well to secure victory in the 2028 general election and beyond,” they pointed out.
Catherine Afeku entered into Ghanaian politics in the early 2000s during the presidency of John Agyekum Kufuor.
She was a Government Spokesperson for Infrastructure.
She was an MP for Evalue-Ajomoro-Gwira from 2008 to 2012, but lost her re-election bid in the 2012 general election.
She again won the seat and became MP from 2016 to 2020, but lost the 2020 and 2024 parliamentary elections.
She was a cabinet minister in the Nana Akufo-Addo administration and served as the Minister of Tourism from February 2017 to February 2019.
From Emmanuel Opoku, Axim