Founder of newly formed All People’s Party (APC) Hassan Ayariga has been acclaimed as the party’s flagbearer for the 2016 general elections.
Ayariga was acclaimed during the party’s national delegates’ congress at the International Conference Centre in Accra on Monday.
Mr. Ayariga who led the PNC in the 2012 elections formed the APC after he failed to clinch the flagbearership slot for the party for the 2016 polls.
He lost the slot to veteran and former flagbearer, Dr. Edward Mahama.
Several sympathizers thronged the Conference Centre to offer their support to Ayariga’s APC.
Starr News’ Kobby Gomez Mensah who covered the congress reported that many of the supposed delegates appeared as though they were merely given party T-shirt to show up, without any knowledge of the party.
Many children also reportedly thronged the conference center to witness proceedings.
Several executives were also affirmed to lead the party for the next four years.
The Convention People’s Party (CPP), and the Independent Presidential Candidate for the 2012 general election, Joseph Osei Yeboah, were at the congress to offer their solidarity with APC.
But executives of the opposition New Patriotic Party and the National Democratic Congress were conspicuously missing from the congress.
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