Chief Executive Officer for National Youth Authority (NYA) Pius Enam Hadzide was last Monday, 31 July 2023 ambushed by some members of the Asuoagyaman NPP in the Eastern Region.
The reason for the ambush was for them to present to the NYA CEO, a nomination form to contest the Asuogyaman Parliamentary seat in the upcoming Parliamentary primaries of the party.
Pius Enam Hadzide, who is a native of Asuogyaman, and who has lived and worked as a teacher in the constituency was performing a sod-cutting ceremony at Senchi for the construction of an astroturf park when the party went to the Party office to pick up the forms at his blindside and presented to him at the ceremony.
According to the party members mostly identify as “Friends of Pius”, they are calling on him to help secure the seat which the NPP lose to the opposition NDC in the 2020 elections, adding that Pius is vibrant and can win the seat for the party in the 2024 general elections.
Mr Pius after receiving the forms thank the youth for calling upon him to contest the seat.
He expressed his vision to “transform the community and empower my people.”
He also pledged to attract businesses to the area and enhance the overall quality of life for its residents.
Pius Enam Hadzide was born on 14 June 1979. He attended Bishop Herman College in Kpando, where he earned his WASSCE certificate. After that, he attended Accra Technical University, then Accra Polytechnic, and later the University of Cape Coast.
Hadzide is also an alumnus of the Theodor Heuss Academy of Leadership in Gummersbach, Germany. He is currently studying for an LLB from the University of London.
He worked with the President’s Special Initiative on Distance Learning (PSI-DL) as subject co-ordinator for science before moving on to become a business development manager for the advertising and media buying giant Akroma Ltd.
He also worked as the general manager of Ideas Advertising Ltd before venturing into politics and public service.
In 2012, Hadzide was the New Patriotic Party parliamentary candidate for Ketu North in the Volta Region.
He served briefly as a Deputy communications director for the NPP before being appointed as a campaign aide to the then flagbearer and now president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in 2015.
In 2017, Pius Hadzide was named Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports. In November 2018, he was reassigned and became a Deputy Information Minister.
