The National Council of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) at its meeting held on Thursday, July 20, 2023, considered the guidelines for the conduct of the Party's presidential, and parliamentary primaries in constituencies where the Party has sitting Members of Parliament.
After extensive deliberations, the Council arrived that Regional and Constituency Party executives who wish to contest in the primaries in constituencies with sitting Members of Parliament shall resign from their respective positions not later than September 20, 2023. Also, Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) in the Constituencies where the Party has sitting Members of Parliament are not eligible to contest in the parliamentary primaries for those Constituencies.
In a statement signed by the party's General Secretary, Justin Kodua Frimpong, "an aspiring Presidential Candidate shall sign an undertaking with the party, committing himself to supporting whoever is eventually elected as the party's Presidential Candidate after the election/selection process in the event that he is not elected/selected. He shall also undertake not to contest as an Independent Presidential Candidate or as a Candidate on the ticket of any other political party, and that, the NPP reserves the right to restrain him should he decide otherwise."
The photo Album/Register that was used to elect the Constituency Executives between April 22, 2022, and May 2, 2023, shall be the same album that will be made available to the Electoral Commission of Ghana for the conduct of the presidentil primaries.
Read below the full decisions of the National Council of the New Patriotic Party on Parliamentaryand Presidential Primaries
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Some of the DCE’s and MM DCE’s deliberately makes the sitting MP’s unpopular by not releasing monies that are for the MP’s common fund for works and projects of the MP’s to be done, because they have interest in the seats of the MP’s and per survey conducted by the Party, which revealed the secrets caused the party to introduce this new policy abiding laws,
Some of the DCE’s and MMDCE’s deliberately makes the sitting MP,s unpopular by not releasing monies that are for the MP,s common fund for works and projects of the MP,s to be done, because they have interest in the seats of the MP,s and per survey conducted by the Party, which revealed the secrets caused the party to introduce this new policy abiding laws,
Ken all the way
Well said, but why prevent MMDCE's from contesting sitting MP's ? You may have a sitting MP who is not popular in his or her constituency as against an MMDCE who is popular. Question then is; is it the seat the NPP wants to win or they simply want a particular MP to be in parliament . They should remember those days where party supporters were forced to tow a certain line are over. The national executives should ask themselves how come the president won in certain constituencies with same voters voting against the party's parliamentary candidate? It simply tells you the MP is no longer popular. You may have a very knowledgeable and hard working MP in parliament but very unpopular in his or her constituency. There is no way you can force the people to vote for that unpopular MP. In 2020 the president was in Fomena campaigning against the current second deputy speaker of parliament who decided to go independent having earlier stood and won on the ticket of the NPP in 2016. The people of Fomena ignored the president and went ahead to vote for their preffered independent candidate . Today but for him the NPP would had a president with a minority in parliament . If you think you can be adamant , the people can equally be more adamant, after all you need them, i.e. their votes, they don't need you. This particular NPP leadership/ government doesn't take lesson notes, they know everything and thus will never learn from the past and this is their bane. They are playing with fire.
NPP is very undemocratic and autocratic party.
@Party Ba, your selfish candidate wo thinks it cannot be anybody apart from him hasn't anything in him that is presidential. One does not become President with insults and shouts. He even threatened to collapse his own party. "What a selfish saying'. if it takes money alone or being rich to be President, then Dangotey should have been a President in Nigeria. I believe people like you are tired of being in power. Go and sleep!
I am not this current executives wants to do that.
This will not work if the elections are not fair. If anybody tries to twist the hands of Kennedy the NPP must be prepared to go to opposition because we not going to vote.