The New Patriotic Party has announced July 14 to 16 as dates to hold elections for national executives of the party. Additionally, it revealed that the party has equally slated April 22 to 24 as dates for the conduct of constituency executive elections and May 20 to 22 for regional executive elections.

Commenting on the elections, the General Secretary of the party, John Boadu, intimated that the dates and venue for the conduct of the elections were approved by the National Council after a meeting on Thursday, 27th, January 2022.

The venue, he intimated, for the national delegates conference will be in Accra as the Council has approved some nomination fees for the various elections.

“Constituency chairpersons will pay GH₵500 as nomination fees and all other nomination fees will be GH₵200. The rules and regulations will also be seen in the application forms that the constituency election committee will send out. For national Chairman position, GH₵20,000, for the Vice-Chairpersons position, GH₵15,000, for General Secretary position, GH₵10,000. All other positions, GH₵8,000 apart from special wings”.
John Boadu

Following this, Mr. John Boadu expressed that the elections will be supervised by the National Elections Committee which will comprise three representatives appointed by the National Executive Committee, one of whom shall be the Chairperson of the Committee, the Chairman of the National Council of Elders, the Director of Research and Elections, two elderly women appointed by the National Executive Committee, and the Director of IT.

Meanwhile, the General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party, has charged supporters of Alan Kyeremanten’s flagbearership bid to employ decorum and fellow-feeling in a bid and to use laid down procedures to seek redress if they feel dissatisfied in any way.

Rules of engagement on election

Prior to this, Minister of Trade and Industry claimed that members of the National Executive have been selective in the application of guidelines for campaigning regarding the presidential primaries.

Following this, Mr. Boadu encouraged the aggrieved supporters of Alan, “to take advantage of the express provision in the NPP Constitution and petition the National Complaint Committee instead of holding press conferences” to air their grievances.

His comment comes after some supporters of Mr. Kyeremanten accused the National Executive of giving advantage to some high-ranking members of the party in the internal presidential contest.

Mr. Boadu criticised the conduct of the supporters of Alan, arguing that their conduct would bring about disunity in the party’s internal re-organisational effort. The General Secretary emphasized that the party is not unfairly enforcing its instituted regulation preventing campaigning ahead of the party’s internal context.

“In view of recent agitations in some quarters regarding the enforcement of the code of conduct as it relates to the presidential primaries, the party wishes to emphasise that the code of conduct, which is only supplementary to the provisions of the NPP Constitution, expressly provides a clear procedure for handling alleged breaches”.
John Boadu

Currently, some sixty six market queens in Kumasi have expressed their preparedness to cater for the nomination fees if Trades Minister, Alan Kyeremanten declares interest to contest the flagbearer position of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

According to the women, they are counting on him to commit to lead the party to victory to improve trade.