John Boadu
Acting General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu, has maintained that the current National Executive Committee of the party, which he is serving as National Organiser as well, had largely delivered on its mandate.
He said political parties exist primarily to win elections and govern. And so, when they were elected in 2014 at the national delegates’ conference of the party in Tamale, the Northern Regional capital, the delegates justifiably tasked them to go and deliver nothing but victory to the NPP in the 2016 general election; and they did exactly that.
Mr John Boadu made these remarks in a ‘one-on-one’ interview he granted UTV – an Accra-based private television station – on its programme dubbed, “Mpu Ne Mpu” last Friday.
The acting NPP chief scribe observed that they were able to chalk this unprecedented electoral feat for the party, despite the internal wrangling and crisis that overwhelmed the party in the build-up to the 2016 polls – the bickering of which culminated in the indefinite suspension of the then National Chairman, 2nd Vice Chairman and the General Secretary of the party.
This period, he noted, was one of the most challenging moments in the history of the party, but they were inspired by the desire to see Ghana work again and to deliver prosperity to the Ghanaian people.
It was even more challenging for him in particular, because according to Mr Boadu, he had to, not only work as the National Organizer of the party, but also had additional responsibilities as the Director of Operations for the entire 2016 campaign as well as Acting General Secretary.
He thus, thanked all the people that assisted him and the NPP leadership as well as the party’s rank and file to clinch an overwhelming electoral victory at the polls.
He also shed more light on the forthcoming extraordinary national delegates’ conference of the party, which he said, would be held in the second week of December, purposely to adopt a reviewed constitution for the NPP; and that would then set the stage for all internal primaries to elect officers at all levels of the political grouping.
When asked whether he would contest for the general secretary position when the party opens nominations, John Boadu’s response was in the affirmative. He was very confident and optimistic of winning hands-down with his manifestly impeccable records in the party and beyond.
Finally, he used the occasion to talk about some of the enviable achievements of President Nana Akufo-Addo’s NPP government in the last eight months, including the restoration of teacher and nursing trainee allowances, the ‘Planting for food and jobs’ initiative, stabilization of the Ghanaian economy, Free SHS, among several others.
Fake Time-Table
Mr Boadu dismissed a purported time-table for the party, asking members to ignore internal party election time-table being circulated on social media. “They are all fake,” John Boadu said on UTV.
He said the most important agenda of the party now is holding an extraordinary delegates’ congress expected (in December) to effect party constitutional amendments.
Mr Boadu said the NPP would then draw a time-table for the election of polling station executives and constituency officers across the country in 2019.