Odarteifio drops challenge against NDC election exclusion
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on 3News
Steven Nhyira Odarteifio, a candidate for the Ghanaian National Democratic Congress national youth leadership, accepts his exclusion after candidate vetting. He will not appeal and has announced his neutrality between the two remaining candidates, according to a statement published on 15 November.
Steven Nhyira Odarteifio, a candidate for national youth organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has dropped his challenge against his exclusion from the party’s internal election. He said he would file neither a protest nor an appeal against the decision in the vetting process, according to 3News.
Odarteifio also announced his neutrality between the two remaining candidates and pledged to support the winner. He said he wanted to continue working on youth development and empowerment as well as agricultural transformation.
The NDC’s electoral commission began examining 121 applications for 14 national leadership positions on 11 November. Odarteifio, a food systems officer at the World Food Programme in Ghana, had announced his candidacy in September, according to 3News.
