NPP to choose flag-bearer in March 2010
Audrey Micah, Ghanadot
Accra, Sept 3, Ghanadot - The NPP will
hold its presidential primaries to choose its flagbearer
in March 2010. According to sources, this decision was
taken at the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting held in Accra on Tuesday.
At the meeting, party national chairman, Peter Mac Manu
and the NEC members drew up the programme for the
election of party officers across the country.
Starting from next month the party will hold series of
elections to fill executive positions in the polling
stations through the constituency, regional and end with
the election of national officers in December.
The party's constitution demands that a three month
notification period for the national congress must be
given before the election of the flagbearer.
With March being the proposed date, this will mean that
the new party officers will have the election of a
flagbearer being their first major task after their
election.
The proposed date received no opposition from members at
the NEC meeting according sources.
This we are told came from a collective understanding
within the party that the party needs to as quickly as
constitutionally possible conclude the matter of
choosing its Presidential Candidate quickly so as to
unite and mobilise the party and present a clear force
of opposition against the Mills presidency
About 115,000 delegates will choose the new flagbearer
in elections that will be held across all 230
constituencies in the country.
Ghanadot
