The whole membership of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), led by Stephen Ntim, has been urged to come together in support of the person who wins the party’s presidential primary on Saturday, November 4, 2023, and assume the role of leader and flagbearer.
The NPP National Chairman stressed that the only method for the party to accomplish its predetermined objective of “breaking the 8” and gaining a third consecutive term in government in the December 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections is for members to support the new head of the party without wavering following the internal vote.
Speaking on Thursday, November 2, 2023, at the Alisa Hotel during a joint news conference hosted by the NPP’s Council of Elders and National Executive Committee, Mr. Stephen Ntim said,
“It is evident that what stands in the way of the NPP to a third consecutive electoral victory is ourselves, our actions, and our inactions.”
“The way forward is for us to deal decisively with the widespread indiscipline, apathy, and general indifference in the Party. I want to call specifically on the four flagbearer aspirants, all of whom are capable of leading the NPP, to commit to working as a team to ensure victory, even if they fail to win on Saturday.”
“Rallying behind the eventual winner on Saturday is a necessary condition for our success in 2024 because it has the effect of promoting unity and healing the wounds that the internal contest has opened up. We must reconnect with our passion to serve, which was the driving force behind the exploits of our forebears,” the NPP National Chairman stated.
“We must undertake to let go of personal differences and disagreements. In other words, we must each prioritize the larger interest of the Party ahead of our hurts and egos. To emerge from Saturday united and poised for victory, I must be able to say to myself that the battle ahead is not about me, though I am the National Chairman of the Party.”
“We must each look at the bigger picture, bearing in mind that the grand pursuit of the New Patriotic Party is generational, and our task is to build on the gains we have inherited. Our singular mandate is to add on, not to take away or undermine our inheritance,” Mr. Ntim further admonished.
“As Chairman, working with the Steering Committee, we will take a strong view against indiscipline in the Party and related actions or inactions with the propensity to undermine our generational mandate and the goal of winning the elections in 2024,” Ntim added
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Joseph Asare
