The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has declared the month of September as mass registration period as the party embarks on a drive to register its members and update existing names on its polling station register.
The party will undertake this nationwide exercise to compile a register of all members of the NPP as well as persons wishing to be members.
General Secretary Mr John Boadu disclosed this at a news conference last Friday.
According to him, the core requirement for new membership is to promote and defend the good name of the NPP at all times and be loyal and truthful to the party and its policies.
Members of the party at all levels, he said, are therefore requested to update their membership of the party by visiting their respective polling stations to get their details captured in the polling station register.
He urged persons equally wishing to join the party to also visit their polling stations and provide their relevant details to be captured in the new polling station register.
Akufo-Addo, Bawumia to update membership
The NPP General Secretary disclosed that President Nana Akufo-Addo will, in this 20-days mass registration period, visit his polling station at Abuakwa South in the Eastern Region to update his membership of the party in the new register while Vice President Bawumia will also go to his polling station in Walewale to update his membership of the Party.
“National Officers of the Party, Ministers of State and all government appointees who are party members will all participate in this mass registration exercise by visiting their respective polling stations to get their details captured in the new register.
“In accordance with Article 3(10) of the Party Constitution, the membership register shall be kept at the polling station levels. The register shall be updated every six months.”
“The polling station registers shall be in the custody of polling station executives, who shall avail themselves at a publicized venue in and around the polling station and within the electoral area during the 20-day period of the mass registration from 10th September to 30th September,” he said.
The exercise, he said, will be supervised by the respective polling respective Electoral Area Coordinators, Constituency Executives, Regional Executives and the National Executive Officers.
Mr. John Boadu disclosed that ahead of the registration, the party has already distributed polling station register to all the 38,000+ polling stations in the country.
“For emphasis, the Party wishes to state emphatically that no prospective registrant shall be denied the opportunity to get his/her details captured in the polling register. This registration exercise has nothing to do with polling station elections slated for January 2022.”
“The Party will, at the appropriate time, come out with separate rules and regulations for the conduct of the said elections.”
“This is just a mobilization exercise for the over 6.7 million Ghanaians who voted for us in the last elections as well as persons who are impressed and satisfied with our policies, and accordingly wish to identify with the NPP,” he said.
He disclosed that the party has printed and submitted constituency registers to all the 275 constituencies of the country and is expected that at the end of the mass registration period, the data contained in the polling station registers of a particular constituency will be transferred into the constituency register by the constituency secretariat.
Entries made in the polling station registers, he said, will be transferred to the constituency registers from time to time and indicated regional registers will also be compiled from the entries in constituency registers at regular intervals.
Mr. John Boadu explained that the membership registration forms part of the party’s restructuring and reorganization efforts towards breaking the eight-year governance cycle and thus ensuring a resounding victory for the party in 2024.
He urged members of the party to therefore accord this important exercise their maximum cooperation and support
