A Media Relations officer at the New Patriotic Party Headquarters, Kofi Agyepong, has been appointed as the new press aide to Ghana’s next vice president, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.

He replaces Kwabena Boadu who died on November 24, 2016 in a hotel room at Wa in the Upper West Region while on a campaign trail with Dr Bawumia ahead of the December 7 general elections.

Kofi Agyepong, 32, years is an alumnus of Africa University College of Communications and once served as an aide to Perry Okudzeto, a Deputy Communications Director of the NPP and coordinated media activities of the party.

He worked for West Africa Democracy Radio as their Ghana Correspondent. Kofi Agyepong also did some work for OBI Consulting in Luthiania.