C/R NPP to benefit from diaspora adoption policy 

All twenty-three constituencies of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Central Region are to benefit from a proposal that would have the party’s foreign branches adopting them to offer capacity building and resource equipment.

The proposal would move activities of diaspora chapters in local party strengthening from the regional level to constituency executives as a way of making grassroots stronger for the NPP to solidify its base in the Regions.

The proposal was announced by the Director of Communications for NPP Chicago, Richard Ahiagbah, when he spoke to Citi News on the sidelines of the NPP Central Region Delegates Conference at Kasoa on Sunday.

He said, “as a party in the diaspora, the Central Region is one of the places we have links with; we help the party resource-wise, and we want to go a point where every constituency in the Central Region will gain an adoption from an external chapter so that they will be able to build a relationship with the constituencies that allows for exchange and exposure”.

The Central Region was pivotal in the NPP victory in the 2016 general elections.

In 2016, Nana Akufo Addo moved had 53% of the presidential votes from the 43% votes he had in 2012, and in the parliamentary elections, the party had nineteen seats out of the twenty-three in the Region as against seven in 2012.

In spite of this most constituencies are under-resourced, and the NPP also has to keep the two new seats it grabbed for the first time from the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), the Ekumfi and Twifo-Atimokwa constituencies.

However, Mr Ahiagbah who is also aspiring to be the party’s General Secretary believes the region will benefit more if foreign investment in the area is directly linked to constituencies.

“What we have now is that when you go to a lot of the constituencies, they do not have money, so by building these relationships, they would be able to build among themselves some platforms that allow for them to transfer or have some monies come to them directly”, he explained.

He promised if he wins the party’s General Secretary position, the diaspora branches will have travel packages for constituency executives to learn from diaspora chapters alternative ways of doing things to ensure a ground-up party development involvement.  

The General Secretary aspirant noted, “as a matter of change, I believe that we need to give opportunities to our grassroots leaders, the constituency leadership, to open them to possibilities of how other people elsewhere, especially people who share our conservative values, organise to win elections”.

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Joseph Ackon-Mensah/citinewsroom.com/Ghana

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