A Member of Parliament Akyem Swedru in the Eastern Region, Kennedy Osei Nyarko has suggested six things the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has to do to ensure that the political party is rebuilt and brought back to its glory days.
He suggests that instead of the delegate system, which the party uses in selecting its leaders, all card-bearing members of the political party must be given the opportunity for both regional and national elections.
The Member of Parliament also suggests that the only elections we should have internally as a party should be the selection of the flagbearer and the PC. We should do away with the national, regional and the polling station elections completely.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) lost the 2024 elections to the National Democratic Congress.
The percentage of the win is a clear indication that the people of Ghana were peeved with the governance under the leadership of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
There have been calls for a total overhauling of the political party to allow for a rebuild and new energy after failing to make an impact in the 2024 elections.
Read His Statement Below
SOME REFORMS THE PARTY CAN CONSIDER GOING INTO THE FUTURE
1. What we have to do as a party in the near future is to run the national party as an organization by appointing or recruiting a top notch administrator to run the national secretariat with supporting staff.
2. We should abolish the delegate system and allow only registered card bearing members to elect the flagbearer after which the flagbearer will appoint his team at both the national and regional level to run his campaign.
3. Parliamentary elections will also go through same process as the flagbearer after which the PC will appoint his or her own team to run the constituency campaign.
4. The PC together with Constituency Campaign team must invite volunteers and mobilisers at every polling station or at the grassroots to lead the campaign at the polling stations with the supervision from the constituency team.
5. The constituency team will work hand in hand with the national and the regional teams that will be put together by the presidential candidate.
6. The only elections we should have internally as a party should be the selection of the flagbearer and the PC. We should do away with the national, regional and the polling station elections completely.
The above proposals if implemented effectively has the potential of eliminating or minimizing the monetization of our internal elections completely and also create sense of responsibility and belongingness among all party members or sympathizers within the party.
When every party member feels part of the running of the party from the grassroots to the top it makes the party organization and running of grassroots campaigns more effective and efficient.
It’s not about the expansion of the electoral college that will address the current problems with our internal electoral system and the monetization of our elections. The most practicable way to deal with this is to do away with the delegate system completely and adopt the volunteer system which allows everyone to be part of the processes.
