A former Minister for Trade and Industry, Ekwow Spio-Garbrah has disclosed that he will file his nomination to contest for the presidential slot of the opposition National Democratic Congress.
Dr. Spio-Grabrah told host of Starr Chat Bola Ray that he has what it takes to win the presidential slot of the NDC ahead of the 2020 general elections.
“I’m going to file my nomination for presidency when the time is due,” former Ghana’s ambassador to the United States and Mexico said Wednesday.
Asked whether he can beat former President John Mahama if he decides to contest, Dr. Spio-Garbrah said “I am not there to beat anybody, I am there to present myself and win regardless of who is there…everybody goes into a race to win.”
The opposition NDC goes to congress in 2018 to elect new leaders ahead of the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections.
Born in Kumasi to former Ghanaian ambassador Britton Spio-Garbrah and poet Elizabeth Spio-Garbrah, Ekwow was a top student at Ghana’s premier Achimota School, received his B.A in English from the University of Ghana, completed coursework for a Master’s degree in communications from the same university and obtained a MA in international relations from Ohio University in Athens.
He is a former Ghanaian Minister for Trade and Industry, Former Minister of Communications, Former Minister of Education and a former Acting Minister of Mines & Energy.
He also previously served as Ghana’s ambassador to the United States and Mexico.
He is a former CEO of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) based in London.
Source: starrfmonline.com
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This is a non-starter. The NDC train is already wrecked
I am happy to hear that Dr. Spio-Garbrah will file for presidency. You have all it takes to be president.I will support you to achieve such a great ambition. I welcome you, Dr. Spio-Garbrah, Bravo. Thanks.
President Mahama is very very good but my worry is the fact that he has only one term to rule. NDC should be thinking of somebody we can market for 2020-2014 since NPP will rule for 8 years as it is the norm in Ghana. Pres. Mahama we love you so so much.
Massa -Spio -Garbrah -Please don't be fulled by the silly advice from your master Duncan -Williams a charlatan and a KROOKED pastor ; you have not even won the NDC nomination yet but have started hedging your bets to become a president ; please stop building castles in the air because there are other potential candidates besides you have been in government since the JJ Rawlings PNDC/NDC period and helped that that idiotic aimless ewe/ayigbe crook JJ Rawlings to mess up Ghana and so what makes you think that you stand a good chance to become the President besides the mere acquisition of paper qualification does not make you a potential presidential candidate and your masters degrees are all fake degrees ; how can you complete a course work for masters degree besides University of Ohio in Athens is a surrogate university and not the OHIO University ; how did you obtain your doctrate degree as always mentioned as DR Spio-Garbrah .