NPP postpones congress for Akwatia elections
Audrey Micah, Ghanadot

Accra, Aug 7, The much anticipated congress of the largest opposition party in Ghana, New Patriotic Party (NPP), has been postponed because of the Akwatia election.

A new date, August 22, 2009, has been scheduled for the congress that will seek to amend the party's constitution. The delegates congress was slated for August 15.

The proposed amendments will be limiting the number of people who can vie for the presidential candidacy of the party.

According to the party the move will help tem to deal with some of the challenges that came about as a result of a swarm of candidates who contested the flag-bearership race in 2007. That contest is believed to have badly fractured the party, culminating in its defeat in the 2008 general elections. As many as 17 candidates competed in that race.

In an interview on Joy FM, Dr. Akoto Owusu-Afriyie, a member of the NPP National Executive Committee, said the decision to postpone the August 15 congress to August 22 was to afford the party the opportunity to prepare adequately for the impending Akwatia election re-run on August 18.

It would be recalled that the Supreme Court Wednesday, July 15, 2009 dismissed a writ filed by the NDC candidate, Baba Jamal, in the Parliamentary election constituency and directed the Electoral Commission (EC) to conduct the election in six polling stations in the constituency where voting was disrupted in the December 7, 2008.

The six polling stations are the Presbyterian High School, Yoruba Mosque A, Yoruba Mosque B, Lorry Station A, Lorry Station B and the AME Zion Church, all at Akwatia.






 

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