Former National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Awentami Paul Afoko, has urged party members, executives, and supporters to look beyond old conflicts and focus on creating a political culture that produces actual results.
As part of his consultative engagements across the country, Afoko spoke in separate meetings with Regional Executives, the Council of Elders, and the NPP’s patrons in the Western North, Ahafo, Bono, and Bono East Regions. He emphasized that the party should not be hindered by some individuals who are more concerned with settling old scores than finding solutions to current issues.
“We must build bridges to the future, not the past,” Afoko told the gathering. “If we keep looking backwards, we will miss the opportunities in front of us. The youth in this party and a great number of us, don’t want stories about who offended whom in the past or during 2024. They want the party they believed in back to power. “Focus on unity and grassroots organizing,” he urged.
Strengthening grassroots infrastructure and promoting younger members’ participation were the main goals of the consultative engagement.
As he promotes his 3R agenda, which is centered on Reuniting, Rebuilding, and Recapturing power for the party in 2028, Afoko encouraged members to refrain from using language and strategies that revive old disputes that would not be in the NPP’s best interests.
“For years I chose to work quietly behind the scenes, supporting the NPP in private,” Afoko said. “But recent developments have compelled me to step forward. We need to get our party back into winning ways, and that starts with unity of purpose.”Afoko reiterated.
He presented the approaching period as a test of whether NPP politics would advance or stay mired in cycles of blame, but he expressed optimism that all party supporters would unite to achieve the objective of installing Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia as Ghana’s next president.
“The future will not wait for us to finish fighting the past,” he said. “Let’s build the bridges now.”
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/Joseph Asare
