I'm not interested in NPP race - Gifty Anti

Maverick TV presenter and host of The StandPoint, Gifty Anti has denied reports that she was interested in contesting in the upcoming primaries for selection of parliamentary candidates in the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).

There have been reports on social media and the Daily Guide Newspaper published on Tuesday that Ms Anti was interested in the Ajumako seat in the Central region on the ticket of the NPP. The NPP has started the process to select parliamentary candidates for the 2016 elections.

But speaking to Accra based radio station, Oman FM, Gifty Anti said she was not interested in partisan politics at the moment and that it was not true she was going to contest.  

“I don’t have a party card, I don’t have any political ambition now, I am very political and interested in politics in all forms because of what I do as a journalist and a gender advocate and activist.”

“I am very much interested in seeing women go to parliament, I’m very interested in seeing that government will do what it needs to do for women and children in this country, but for partisan politics I am not interested in it now”, she said on Oman FM Tuesday morning. 

Continuing Gifty Anti said she doubts if she would qualify in any way for the primaries and that the job she was doing on standpoint was big and not finished yet for her to go into partisan politics.

Gifty Anti who hails from Asempanyin in the Central Region worked at the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) after her journalism at the Ghana Institute of Journalism where she graduated in 1994.

She started at GTV not as a presenter but as a Floor Manager and by dint of hard work, climbed up the ladder to become a leading broadcaster and a role model to young girls.

She holds a Masters degree in International Journalism from City University in London and currently hosts The Standpoint, a private production by GDA Concepts which is aired on GTV and looks at issues affecting mainly women.