Eastern Regional Second Vice Chairman hopeful of the ruling New Patriotic Party Michael Oteng Adu has called on members of the party to elect competent and committed people as polling station executives.
He said members of the party should avoid voting for aspirants who will abdicate their positions after being elected.
The ruling New Patriotic Party is beginning its internal elections today February 20,2022 with the opening of nomination forms for Polling Station elections to be held next week across all polling stations in the country.
The party will further hold its Electoral Area Coordinators election, and the Constituency Executives elections in March, this year.
While the Regional and National Executives Elections will also take place in April and June 2022 respectively.
Already ,there is mad rush at various constituency offices of the party in the Eastern Region by Thousands of Members of the party seeking to secure forms to contest in the polling station election.
Some aspirant hopefuls in Abuakwa North slept at the party office lastnight in wait for the arrival of the forms.
However,Michael Oteng Adu says, delegates of the party must diligently elect executives base on their competence and not a faction they associate themselves.
He cautioned that, electing executives from polling station ,to constituency to national levels based on faction could be detrimental to the party’s quest to win the 2024 Presidential and Parliamentary election.
He said breaking the eight (8) requires that competent leaders are elected to unify the party and work harder with workable strategies .
According to Oteng Adu, delegates of the party should avoid voting according to factions as some individuals lacking political leadership skills want to hide behind faction to occupy key positions in the party.
“It comes from the recognition that it is an internal contest, once it an internal contest and the rules are set ,then everybody who believes in the NPP and it ideals because we know that as a democratic party we always go to an election.People should not tagged you belong to faction “A or B” .That’s what breaks the back of people that he is not being assessed based on competence or otherwise but he is being assessed base on his association with “A or faction B” .
He stressed ,members of the party must recognize that “we belong to one party and that unity and friendship must remain even after we finish selecting our executives and it is key”.
Mr. Oteng Adu, believes going forward,one critical thing the party should fixate its attention to is how people are disqualified from contests. This phenomenon , according to him has the tendency of creating rancour and disunity in the party.
“I believe that if our constitution is made to work and works well, then at the end of the day no one has a course to worry, there has been few instances where people are not too happy in a contest for flimsy excuses , people are disqualified, I think it is the delegates decision , sometimes once the person satisfy the basic requirement you are expected that you go to the delegates and make your case and at the end of the day the delegates will select the best person to run”
Oteng Adu told Starr News , he has rescinded from contesting the Regional Fist Vice Chairmanship position to rather contest as Second Vice Chairman upon further consultation.
“Four years ago I contested as the vice chairman for the party. I am confidence that I will be successful, I believe that the core mandates of the regional executives and the national executives is to supervise activities at the constituency level and for that supervision and coordination you need people who are bold , people who are innovative.if there are challenges in constituencies how do you handle it because that’s where the boxes”
He concluded “others have had the opportunity to serve as regional executives, and as national executives. so I am urging the delegates to assess how they performed so far as supervision and coordination is concerned. It is the key to our moving forward. So for me, I am here and that surely ,when nominations are opened, I will definitely contest”
Source : Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/Kojo Ansah
