This is to congratulate members and
officers of our party across all ten regions for the peaceful, credible,
efficient and successful manner in which elections for party offices have been
conducted. It has been exciting and competitive. The high level of participation,
enthusiasm and camaraderie that these series of elections generated among our
activists are indications of their collective energy and commitment to the
struggle ahead in 2012.
Since 2009, following the constitutional
amendments, the NPP has gone through the difficult but necessary task of
nominating approximately 105,000 polling station officers, nearly 4,000
constituency officers and some 170 regional officers.
This phase of party reorganisation was
brought to a successful conclusion with Monday’s Regional Conference at the
party’s largest stronghold, the Ashanti Region. I congratulate the
Chairman, Mr. Frederick Fredua Antoh and the new executives, and wish them,
along with all the other regional officers across the country, the very best.
I congratulate Mr. Robert Yaw Amankwa
and all former executives across the country for their service and dedication
to the cause of the party over the years and I edge all who participated in the
elections, winners and losers alike, to continue to see themselves as
members of the great Elephant family.
Internal party contests are not about
winners and losers. They are about the party winning. We should all,
in the true spirit of our party’s tradition, rally behind the new party
officers to strengthen our resolve and singleness of purpose to capture power
in 2012.
All these elections are a sign of the
renewal of the party. We wish to see the same successes that we have seen in
these regional elections replicated at the upcoming National Conference to
elect party officers, so that we can complete the reorganisation of the party.
We should all remember that the
Ghanaian people are looking up to us to provide a strong, positive alternative
to the failing government of the NDC. We cannot fail them.
