NPP Regional Elections Coka, Okoe Boye Emerge Winners

In spite of a smear campaign, crunch meetings to plot his downfall, Odeneho Kwaku Appiah, alias Asanteman COKA, simply known as COKA, won the Ashanti New Patriotic Party (NPP) chairmanship race hands down. His counterpart in Accra, Dr Bernard Okoe-Boye, also won massively in the Greater Accra Region to lead the opposition party in the national capital.

COKA got the nod of 658 (70.98%) of the 927 votes cast by delegates comprising MPs, founding fathers, regional executives, constituency executives, 50 TESCON presidents of tertiary institutions in Ashanti, and National Council representatives, constituting the Electoral College for last Saturday’s election.

COKA won with 389 more votes than his sole contender, Dr Henry Kwabena Kokofu, who trailed with 269 votes (29.02%) in the election conducted by the Electoral Commission and supervised by the party’s Election Committee under police watch at Jubilee Park at Asem, in Kumasi.

His political background as a former assemblyman and constituency chairman for 20 years, regional treasurer for the party, as well as chairman of the NPP Constituency Chairmen in Ashanti, explains his breakthrough. COKA’s feat, though expected, thus proves the 19.4% overall stakeholder perception prediction for COKA by Africa Wash Consult, a research and stakeholder perception polling organisation, wrong.

Dr Henry Kwabena Kokofu was said to be leading COKA in all nine categories measured, with his strongest performances recorded in communication skills, anger management and loyalty, and thus took a commanding lead in the race for the Ashanti Regional New Patriotic Party Chairmanship as of August 7, 2026.

The survey put Kokofu’s overall stakeholder perception at 80.6%, but he ended up garnering only 269 votes against COKA’s 658. The outcome of the polls also made nonsense of the initial smear campaign held by certain party people prior to the polls that COKA was an NDC sympathiser.

The NPP Regional Chairman-elect, Odeneho Kwaku Appiah, in a post-election address, called for unity to secure victory in the 2028 general elections. A total of 34 aspirants contested for 11 executive positions.

Other elected officers are Bernard Amofa Jabtuah – 465 votes (First Vice Chairman); Addai Poku Aikins – 587 votes (Second Vice Chairman); Dr Francis Adomako – 492 votes (Regional Secretary); Lawyer Kingsley Bonsu Kyeretwie – 705 votes (Deputy Secretary); and Dr Keskine Owusu Poku – 588 votes (Communications Officer).

The rest are Dennis Kwakwa – 527 votes (Organiser); Martin Ameyaw – 683 votes (Youth Organiser); Helena Mensah – 653 votes (Treasurer); Beatrice Owusu – 491 votes (Women’s Organiser); and Alhaji Razak Abubakar – 335 votes (Regional Nasara Coordinator).

 

 

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