The New Patriotic Party (NPP), reeling from the crushing 2024 electoral defeat at the hands of bitter rivals, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has received 59 amendment proposals to its constitution — a sweeping overhaul aimed at restructuring its internal mechanisms and fast-tracking its return to power.
At the University of Ghana Sports Stadium, and in line with the party’s constitution and the Council’s advice, an Extraordinary National Delegates Conference is scheduled for Saturday, not just to tweak but to comprehensively examine and substantially review leadership selection, internal democracy, communication, and membership mobilisation to ultimately guide campaign strategy.
The proposals (amendment motions) have come from the rank and file of the party, including ex-chairmen and flagbearer aspirants to grassroots members, and are sure to occupy the party for the entire day.
The programme for the day includes allotted time for regular speeches by party officials, including national chairman and general secretary, and then former presidents JA Kufuor and Nana Akufo-Addo, as well as former vice president Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.
The Extraordinary National Delegates Conference is on the theme: Rebuilding together with our values.”
Kufuor and Akufo-Addo, thought to be out of the country, have been confirmed to participate in the conference virtually.
The amendment motions include calls to abolish the Special Electoral College for the election of the party’s Presidential Candidate, which, when carried through, will expand the voting constituency considerably.
That proposal is tabled by Messrs Peter Mac Manu, former National Chairman of the party and Evans Nimako, Director, Research & Elections.
There is also the case of former MP for Awutu Senya East & former Minister for Fisheries & Aquaculture Development, Mavis Hawa Koomson, who thinks the present mode of electing the National Women’s Organiser for the party is not inclusive enough.
Hawa Koomson is proposing that all female delegates at the party’s National Delegates Conference be allowed to participate in the election of the National Women’s Organiser to, among others, unite the women’s wing.
There is also Kwabena Agyei Agyepong, the former General Secretary’s proposal that appears to have ruffled feathers. He has proposed that the party, in order to reduce the tension associated with the numerous elections it conducts at various levels ahead of the Presidential Candidate Election, should hold the presidential primaries first.
For this to materialise, he has called for the establishment in each of the 276 constituencies of a caucus comprising all current and past office holders of the party in the constituency.
Late Friday night, officials were still finalising a running order for a smooth conference expected to chart the future of the New Patriotic Party.
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