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NPP to organize national conference at Koforidua
Koforidua, Dec. 26, GNA- The New Patriotic Party(NPP) is to
organize it's national conference at Koforidua from January
5 to January 7, 2007 at the EREDEC Hotel.
The three-day conference which would be organized under the
theme "Moving forward in unity" would be climaxed with a
non-denominational church service in the morning of January
7 at the EREDEC Hotel and a rally at the Jackson's Park in
the afternoon.
This was disclosed by the National Organizer of NPP, Mr Laud
Commey at a press conference at Koforidua on Tuesday.
He said the conference would be attended by over 200
delegates made up of 1,429 delegates from the constituencies
and other delegates from the foreign constituencies of the
party and would be used to reenergize and resource the
structures of the party in preparations towards the 2008
elections.
Mr Commey said the conference would discuss reports from the
regions, some key ministries and the government to assess
how the manifesto presented to the people of Ghana by the
party was being fulfilled.
He said a special feature of the conference would be the
opportunity that would be offered the delegates to sit with
the President to chat with him and ask him key questions on
issues affecting the areas where they were coming from.
Mr. Commey said some proposals had been forwarded to the
party secretariat and would expect some amendments to be
made to the constitution of the party but did not specify.
He explained that as far as the party was concern, there are
no presidential aspirants of the party but what was
happening could best be described as party members
conducting consultations and "testing the waters".
Mr. Commey explained that, by the constitution of the party,
14 months before an election, the party opens nominations
for possible presidential candidates to fill their
nominations.
He explained that, it was after the filling of nomination
that a committee would be set up by the party to vet the
nominees and it was after
a nominee had been confirmed by the committee that the
fellow would become a presidential aspirant of the party.
Mr. Commey described the research said to have been
published on the presidential aspirants through a poll of
delegates as a fun because the delegates of the party were
not automatic.
He explained that by the constitution of the party, every
constituency would be expected to organize a special
delegates conference to elect four delegates from the ten
constituency executives and six non-executive members and as
at now nobody knows who would be a delegate and so wonder
who were interviewed.
Mr. Commey said to him, the various threats of passing of
vote of no confidence in the various executives of the party
at different levels of the party was an expression that the
party was alive and that the ordinary members of the party
could point out faults of the leadership to them even if the
ordinary members were wrong.
The Eastern Regional chairman of the party, Mr Yaw Gyekye
Amoabeng explained that, most of the party members accusing
him of not acting on their threat to have their executives
removed were not having their way because often, they failed
to abide by the laid down procedures in the constitution of
the party.
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