The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has entreated all leadership aspirants of the party to “focus on the collective will” of the party on the needs of the Ghanaian people and the success of the Akufo-Addo led administration amid efforts to restore the country to its pre-COVID-19 glory.
“Now, our need as a governing Party in the leadership of the nation is to demonstrate our readiness to mobilise the people around a path to self-sustaining economic and social growth through mechanisms that the people accept can work effectively. The people are hungry for direction,” Director of Communications, Yaw Buaben Asamoah, said in a statement released Monday.
Asamoa added that the Party and the Government are challenged by a society eager for solutions that will help break the perennial cycle of need impeding our common progress. There is a pressing need for more infrastructure. There is an urgent need for meaningful jobs. People need personal growth in tandem with the pace of national development.
“The Ghanaian people are thirsty for a clear, consistent and sustainable path towards growth. It is a path of mobilisation. This is a time for mobilisation. This is not a time for leadership contention. Only a year ago, the good people of Ghanaian renewed the mandate of the current leadership of the Government. That leadership was offered to the people by the Party. The leadership of President Akufo-Addo, as endorsed by the people, has three more years to work towards realising the vision that Ghana voted for.”
The director of communications’ rallying call comes days to the party’s National Annual Delegates Conference to be held in Kumasi, Ashanti Region. The Conference is being held from Saturday the 18th December 2021 to Monday the 20th of December, 2021. Delegates are expected to arrive in Kumasi on the 18th.
The main activity will be on Sunday 19th December, 2021.
The programme on that day includes a Worship Service, after which speeches and reports will be received from the Party Chairman, Treasurer, General Secretary, former President of the Republic and the incumbent President.
A break in the afternoon will be followed by a forum to address proposed constitutional amendments.
Delegates are expected to depart on Monday the 20th of December 2021.
The NPP Government, according to Asamoa, is offering direction for the country to recover from the COVID-19 devastation and it is doing that through the e-levy as of one such direction, explaining that “it is a major opportunity that may move us beyond general price inflation occasioned by energy sector levies. It can also support a viable process of public debt reduction.”
However, he said it needs to be owned by the people and he wished all the paraphernalia by leadership aspirants were about the e-levy. “Then we would be mobilising the people in their entirety around the concept of the e-levy, a clear leadership signal.
“The digitalisation agenda is another such direction. The more government services and payments can be accessed through electronic means, the less waste and corruption that may be likely through human contact. I wish again that aspirant paraphernalia were advertising the policy of digitisation and digitalisation and its immense potential benefits to Ghanaians,” he stated.
“Our knowledgeable leadership aspirants would do this Government and country a world of good if their contribution to this conference would be about advertising the virtues of the bauxite, iron and steel and automotive industries and the 1D1F policy that are capable of changing the entire equation about jobs for the youth of this country,” he affirmed.
By this directive, Asamoah says the Party expects the conduct of all leading members to give hope to the foot soldiers, academics, artisans, traders, professionals, religious bodies, transport operators, students, traditional authorities, farmers and fishermen, media, business people, politicians, family and friends in the diaspora, public servants, the security services, the international community and all those with a stake in the growth and development of Ghana.
That was why the Conference theme reflects the desires of Ghana towards mobilisation of national energy around solutions, he stated.
The theme is “NPP: Our Resolve, Our Determination and Commitment to Ghana’s Development”
““Resolve” implies to find solutions. Determination implies firmness of purpose. And Commitment implies dedication to the solutions and purpose we offer in our policies for social and economic growth. That is leadership. Our call to all would be aspirants to refrain from campaigning and restrain their supporters is nothing less than a call to leadership. We would be grateful for aspirants to exhibit supreme leadership in their quest to lead by voluntarily complying with the Party directive not to campaign in Greater Kumasi pre-and during the Conference,” he pleaded.
