Justin Frimpong Kodua, the General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has rejected claims the party’s presidential primaries are skewed to favour the former vice president Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.
Some NPP supporters and bigwigs have raised concerns surrounding the NPP’s presidential primaries.
According to Justin Kodua, he will be very surprised for anyone to think that the election which is yet to be conducted favours a particular candidate.
Speaking in an interview on Channel One TV Justin Kodua detailed, “I will be very surprised for anyone to think that an election that is yet to be conducted will favour a particular candidate.”
“If you have monitored our electoral history even from 1992, 1996 to 2000, at every election — from national through to polling stations — about 70%, sometimes even 80%, of current executives retain their positions,” he explained.
He added, “The fact that you may even start from polling station to national or national to polling station does not make it skewed towards a particular person. There are current executives who will still continue to be executives”.
Meanwhile, Boakye Kyeremanteng Agyarko a New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential aspirant hopeful has quizzed the NPP’s National Executive Committee on why they want to elect a flagbearer before national and regional executives.
He boldly asserted that the decision to conduct the presidential primaries before the national executive elections is nonsense and motivated by greed.
According to Boakye Agyarko, if the party genuinely understood the dynamics of campaigning and sought to make a real impact on the electorate, it would have prioritized the selection of capable party executives across the country.
He noted that nobody builds a house starting from the roof before constructing the foundation.
Boakye Agyarko emphasised that strengthening the base by electing competent lower-level executives would significantly support the work of presidential aspirants, as these executives play a crucial role in grassroots mobilization.
