Bernard Okoe-Boye, Odeneho Kwaku Appiah and Jeff Konadu Addo have emerged as regional chairmen-elect for Greater Accra, Ashanti and Eastern respectively, according to provisional results declared by Electoral Commission officials who supervised the New Patriotic Party’s regional elections.
They lead a slate of thirteen chairmen so far confirmed across the country. The three carry the party’s most consequential regions into a national leadership contest that opens within days.
Nominations for National Executive positions run from 17 to 22 August 2026, with the national elections set for 3 October, which makes the regional chairmen the organisational base on which every national campaign will now be built.
Okoe-Boye takes Greater Accra
Bernard Okoe-Boye won the Greater Accra chairmanship against Alfred Boye. He now leads a region that carries the largest concentration of urban voters in the country and a substantial share of the party’s polling stations.
Greater Accra has been central to the party’s electoral arithmetic in every recent cycle, and the chairman’s office there controls the machinery through which national campaigns reach the capital’s constituencies.
COKA prevails in Ashanti
Odeneho Kwaku Appiah, widely known as COKA, defeated Dr Henry Kwabena Kokofu to take the Ashanti Region. The result matters more than any other on the list.
Ashanti region delivers the largest bloc of votes in the party’s internal contests and remains its most reliable stronghold at general elections. A chairman there commands influence over the constituency structures that will supply delegates to the national congress.
Jeff Konadu Addo holds Eastern
Jeff Konadu Addo emerges as chairman-elect for the Eastern Region, the third of the party’s traditional strongholds and a region whose constituencies have historically supplied a significant share of its parliamentary seats.
Together, Ashanti, Eastern and Greater Accra account for a substantial proportion of the party’s internal electoral college, which places the three men in positions of unusual leverage as the national contest opens.
The rest of the country
Ignatius Kwasi Africa takes the Western Region and Joseph Kobinah Esibu the Central Region. Kwame Baffoe, known publicly as Abronye, emerges as chairman-elect in Bono, while Robert Sarfo Mensah takes Ahafo.
In the north, Mohammed Baatima Adam, known as Samba, wins the Northern Region, with Alhaji Mohammed Fuseini taking North East and Alhaji Iddrisu Sulemana the Savannah Region.
Elvis Awonekai Figo carries Upper East and Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahman the Upper West. Makafui Kofi Woanya emerges as chairman-elect for the Volta Region.
Three regions remain outstanding
The Western North Region will hold its election on 16 August 2026. Results from the Oti Region and the Bono East Region had not been declared at the time of filing.
Until those three conclude, the party’s regional leadership picture stays incomplete, and the delegates those regions send to the national congress remain outside any candidate’s confirmed count.
The regional elections form one stage of a reorganisation the National Elections Committee has mapped out. Nominations for National Executive positions open on 17 August and close on 22 August, giving prospective candidates a six-day window.
The National Executive Elections follow on 3 October 2026, when the party chooses the officers who will lead it through the next electoral cycle.
The compressed timetable places the newly elected regional chairmen at the centre of what happens next. Regional executives mobilise the delegates who vote at national congress, and candidates for national office will spend the coming weeks seeking exactly the endorsements these results have just conferred.
Rebuilding after 2024
The reorganisation follows the party’s loss of power in the 2024 general election, a defeat that triggered internal review and a contest over the direction of the party’s rebuilding.
The regional results give the first clear reading of where the membership stands. Chairmen elected this month will carry their regions into the national congress, and the balance among them will shape which national candidates can assemble a winning coalition.
The results remain provisional pending final declaration, and the party has not indicated whether any of the contests will attract petitions or challenges.
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