Post November 4: Discipline, Internal Cohesion Vital For NPP 2024 Victory – Ntim | Politics

Nationwide Chairman of the New Patriotic Celebration (NPP), Stephen Ntim has referred to as on NPP rank and file to shut all ranks after the celebration’s presidential primaries which takes place on Saturday 4 November 2023, and rally behind the candidate who will emerge winner after the interior polls.

Mr Ntim famous that inner celebration coercion and self-discipline amongst celebration trustworthy, stay an important prerequisite for the celebration to have the ability to win a 3rd consecutive time period in workplace in December 2024. He made the decision at present, Thursday (2 November) in an handle to the media at a joint press convention held by the Nationwide Government Committee and Council of Elders on the Alisa Lodge in Accra.      

“Saturday, 4th November, is essential for the New Patriotic Celebration. By the shut of the day on Saturday, H.E Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who has led our Celebration admirably for 16 profitable years, will carry out the primary of two handing overs, first to one of many 4 aspirants who emerged victorious to succeed him because the chief of the Celebration, and second, to that very same chief and flagbearer of the NPP, to succeed him because the President of the Republic of Ghana, on 7 January 2025.

“That is the character and consequence of the November 4th flagbearer election. We’re decided to win a 3rd time period as a result of the event of Ghana will depend on an NPP victory within the 2024 normal elections. That victory begins this Saturday, and each member of this Celebration has one thing vital to do with it. It requires that we’re disciplined as a celebration. Failure to be disciplined, guarantee inner peace and cohesion, and be aware of our mandate will gravely imperil our electoral prospects” Mr Stephen Ntim mentioned.  

Price of disunity

Stressing the harm that disunity and inner divisions could cause to the NPP’s election fortune in December 2024, Chairman Ntim mentioned he vividly recalled the 2008 normal elections and a few of the components that accounted for the NPP’s painful loss after it led the primary spherical of voting “with 49.13 % of the entire legitimate votes solid.

“Probably the most painful a part of that have is that we misplaced the presidential election within the second spherical after we had elevated our votes by 321,000, whereas all we would have liked to win within the first spherical, was a bit of over 100,000 votes.

“In different phrases, we gifted the NDC the elections in 2008 as a result of our folks didn’t come out to vote within the first spherical. We’re on the identical level at present, and a few of the components that led to us dropping the election in 2008 are rearing their ugly heads” Mr Ntim candidly noticed.

“One of many chief contributors to our defeat within the 2008 normal elections is the shortage of unity of objective or inner cohesion. We can not afford to be disunited even briefly after the outcomes are declared on Saturday. We should guard in opposition to any conduct, actions, or inactions more likely to take us on a path of apathy and disunity” the NPP Nationwide Chairman additional cautioned.

Whip the slate clear

In his handle, Mr Ntim acknowledged that the 2023 flagbearer election has been hotly contested, and within the course of, numerous water has gone beneath the bridge. To that finish, he referred to as on all the NPP fraternity “to whip the slate clear to method [the Saturday, 4 November presidential primaries] with a dedication to work collectively and assist whoever emerges as [the Party’s] chief and flagbearer”  

“There can solely be one flagbearer at a time. I fondly recall the keenness and unity that characterised our method to the 1996 and 2000 elections. It was obvious we wished to win as a celebration. However the top of enthusiasm and conviction with which we canvassed for victory within the 2000 normal elections has waned significantly, and we should match now” Ntim mentioned.

“The choice to an NPP authorities is frightening, and the choice to us is empty. These statements are legitimate as a result of the NDC has not put forth any coverage concept to deal with the youth unemployment problem which is the preoccupation of governments worldwide” he added.

Presidential primaries

The NPP will on Saturday, 4 November 2023, elect its flagbearer for the December 2024 normal elections. From 2007 and for the final 16 years, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been the chief of the NPP. On Saturday, the celebration could have the chance to elect not solely its flagbearer for the 2024 presidential elections however a brand new chief to take over from President Akufo-Addo.

4 individuals are aspiring for the place and they’re first, the Vice President of the Republic, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, second, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, former Minister of Meals and Agriculture, third, Kennedy Agyapong, the sitting member of Parliament for Assin Central within the Central Area and lastly, Francis Addai Nimoh, the previous member of Parliament for Mampong Constituency within the Ashanti Area.