The leadership of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has dismissed Alan Kyerematen’s claims that the party has been taken over as entirely false. According to the party, the NPP is currently more decentralized than it has ever been in its history.
During a press conference held to address certain misconceptions that had been formed in the minds of concerned Ghanaians due to Alan Kyerematen’s statements, the NPP’s leadership asserted that the party has not been commandeered by a small group of individuals.
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“Guided by facts and data, the leadership of the Party disagrees entirely with this assertion. Historically, the selection of flagbearers for political parties in Ghana had been the preserve of a privileged few until the New Patriotic Party took the bold decision to decentralize the process by expanding its electoral college to enfranchise some One Hundred and Six Thousand, Five-Hundred and Ninety (106,590) delegates in 2010.
Currently, about Two Hundred Thousand (200,000) delegates would be voting to select the Party’s next flagbearer relative to the estimated One Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety-Eight delegates (1,998) who did same in 1992. Clearly, the quantum leap to Two Hundred Thousand (200,000) delegates in 2023 underscores the decentralization of power to all Party stakeholders and defeats the assertion that the Party has been hijacked by a privileged few.
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