President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has given a hearty commendation and good luck wish to aspiring National Chairman of the governing Patriotic Party (NPP) and former Director-General of the State Interests and Governance Authority (SIGA), Mr. Asamoah Boateng also known as Asabee,
Speaking at a SIGA Policy Forum at Movenpick on Friday, President Akufo-Addo expressed gratitude to Asabee, the first Director-General of the Authority for his endeavour and the strides he helped to achieve while in office.
“I thank warmly the first Director-General of SIGA, Mr. Stephen Asamoah Boateng, for the considerable work he did throughout the nascent stages of the Authority and growing it to what it has become today.
“Hearty ayekoo to Asabee and I wish him well in his future endeavours,” President Akufo-Addo stated.
Mr. Asamoah Boateng resigned from SIGA to contest for the chairmanship of the governing party in the national executive primaries slated from July 14-16, 2022.
It would be recalled that Asabee announced his departure from SIGA to run for the position of national chairman of the NPP in September, 2021 at the closing session of a three-day retreat organised by SIGA for Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and their Deputies as well as Board Chairpersons at Kwahu-Nkwatia in the Eastern Region.
The former SIGA boss has since given the assurance that he will position the party in a form and shape that will be more appealing to the youth and hardworking women, as well as to all ages within the Ghanaian population.
Asabee literally kindled fire into the race for the chairmanship position and filled the grassroots members and supporters with immeasurable excitement.
Even though his intention was declared quite late compared to other contenders, truthful poll watchers cannot miss but see the positive energy and drive the man has brought into the race.
This is characteristic of a few personalities on earth whose presence draw people closer, whose presence produces some positive energy, even when there is the call for a positive defiance from them, you can’t but join in.
Decision time
For a governing party like the NPP that is heading for eight years in power and seeking to go beyond, the choice of persons to steer affairs in this tortuous task must be made carefully.
NPP needs a crowd pulling leader who will get the crowd prepared and eager to listen to what the flag bearer or the party has for them going forward.
The NPP needs a leader who can unify the various aspects, classes and factions of the party into victory.
It will be very disastrous, almost reprehensible for the NPP to have a repetition of the causes of their loss of the 2008 general election.
Some political observers believe these causes are, unfortunately, reappearing today.
The selfishness, greed and arrant display of arrogance by some appointees, the annoying combination of greed and dormancy by more than 80 percent of National Executives of the party, and the miserable state of the party’s grassroots base, calls for someone who can be seen as a co-equal of the ‘big men’ as well as drawer of the youth.
Such a personality can bring both generations together, lacing them with those appointed to various positions to the table to jaw-jaw on why and how the party must ‘Break the 8’ and the way to do it.
It would have been normal for the party to lose the upcoming 2024 General election if there was no ‘Breaking the 8’ mantra.
It would have been normal for the party to lose the 2024 elections if there was no need for it to continue the great developmental projects and policies it has started, and if Ghanaians were not begging for more of good governance.
Qualities of Asabee
From a very youthful age, this man has been with the elephant tradition fighting to make it not just known, but accepted by Ghanaians all over.
Ghanaians usually mention Margaret Thatcher when they want to give examples of leaders who exhibited some unusual valour, excellence and resilience in the face of tough opposition.
To see these traits in Asabee is not surprising, knowing he had the opportunity to be trained by the woman who is arguably one of the best Prime Ministers Great Britain has ever produced.
In addition to the tough training he received from the Great Margaret Thatcher, he also had the opportunity to serve in several portfolios under the most successful government produced by the UP/NPP tradition; the venerable John Agyekum Kufuor administration between 2000 and 2008.
If the NPP has such a person who is an embodiment of courage, great communication skills, hard work, strategic and visionary person coupled with the ability to be a bridge linking the party’s grassroots to the National Executives, and to the Presidency and appointees, why look elsewhere when Asabee is around?
Join the winning team, Choose Asabee, Choose the Man of the Moment.
