PNC sets August for congress, presidential primaries

The National Standing Committee (NSC) of the People’s National Congress (PNC) has set  August 14 to 16 this year to hold its national delegates congress.

The congress, which will be held in Wa in the Upper West Region,  will elect 17 national executive members and the flagbearer to lead the party to the 2016 general election.

This was part of the outcome of the party’s NSC meeting in Accra yesterday, where it approved a road map for the 2016 polls.

The NSC meeting was attended by the national and regional chairmen, three national vice chairmen, leader of the parliamentary caucus, immediate past flag bearer, national executive, regional secretaries, chairmen of legal and political committees and the communication director.

Road map

The road map includes the holding of  polling station, constituency and regional elections on April 30, May 30 and June 30, this year, respectively.

Pursuant to the road map, the NSC said the party had come a long way since 1992 and was yet to garner sufficient votes to form a government. 

Consequently, it said the PNC had to embark on party organisation in order to strengthen the party by electing capable executive members at all levels; polling stations, constituencies, regional and national.

United front

“It is against this backdrop that we must go into the 2016 election as a very united and purposeful party to wrest political power,” the General Secretary of the party, Mr Bernard Mornah, told the Daily Graphic.

He disclosed that a team had already toured the country and prepared the grounds for successful polling stations, as well as constituency elections.

Victory  in 2016

‘’We must all be thinking of how we can deliver victory in 2016. That is why as members of the PNC, we owe it a duty to ourselves and to Ghanaians to conduct ourselves in a manner to ensure that we do not bring the name of the party into disrepute in this exercise,’’ he said.

He said at the end of all the elections, the party  expected  winners to be magnanimous and genuinely reach out to the losers and those who supported them.

Mr Mornah also admonished those who might be unsuccessful and their supporters to fully and unconditionally support the winners. 

‘’We are all in this struggle together for the redemption of the people of Ghana.

“We urge the rank and file of our party to be at peace with one another and regard the various level elections as a significant step in our preparations towards victory in 2016 to govern Ghana,” he concluded.