Hard work of appointees will make NPP stay in power — John Boadu
The acting General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr John Boadu, has stated that the length of the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP’s) administration will be determined by the hard work of those who have been appointed by the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to various positions.
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He stressed that the NPP national executive would continue to monitor the output of all government functionaries and accordingly apply the necessary sanctions to those who would be seen not to be performing satisfactorily to ensure that the party would remain in political power for the people.
"From our research after our eight years (2000 to 2008), we now have a history. We cannot afford to go back but continue in 2020, 2024, 2028 and beyond," Mr Boadu told delegates of the Western Regional NPP annual conference at the Takoradi Technical University (TTU) last Friday.
Party-government relationship
The conference, which was on the theme: "Sustaining Political Power for a Prosperous Future," was attended by ministers of state, members of the Council of State, Members of Parliament (MPs), metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives (MMDCEs) in the region, as well as sympathisers of the NPP.
Mr Boadu indicated that there was going to be a strong linkage between the party and government so that they could synchronise their activities and added that henceforth, all government functionaries were automatic members of the respective regional party executive committees and should take part in their meetings.
The acting General Secretary also directed that the constituency executive committees ought to invite their respective MMDCEs to deliberate ON their scheduled meetings and that they were expected to submit reports of such meetings to the national headquarters.
"Your work will be determined by what you are doing at the regional and constituency levels. We have worked hard to win power through the prayers of the Clergy and Muslim sympathisers and so we will not sit by for our toil to be in vain," Mr Boadu cautioned.
2016 election
He observed that in the run-up to the 2016 general election, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) had all the resources at its disposal, while some chiefs openly supported them “and so they were far ahead of us and bragged, yet through your hard work and prayers we were able to win the battle. The Western Region contributed significantly towards the party's victory, securing 52.4 per cent as against 43.8 per cent in the 2012 polls, representing over nine per cent increase, the highest in the country”.
Real votes
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In real votes, the acting general secretary indicated that the Western Region added 57,642 to the total ballot, so he commended the polling station executive, constituency and the regional party executive for that feat and added that vigilance, pragmatic arrangements, training, voluntarism and technical inputs were the hallmark for the victory.