NPP members of the Alternative Dispute Resolution and Legal Support Committee
The General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu, has inaugurated an Alternative Dispute Resolution and Legal Support Committee to address issues and complaints that have arisen out of the party’s just-ended polling stations executives and electoral area coordinators’ elections.
The committee is also tasked to address any future issues that may arise out of the upcoming constituency, regional and national elections.
Inaugurating the committee at the party’s headquarters, Mr Boadu implored the members to work hard to ensure continuous peace and stability in the party in vindication of the confidence reposed in them.
The committee, chaired by the Water and Sanitation Minister Cecilia Abena Dapaah, is mandated to, among other things, consider, make appropriate recommendations and resolve, where necessary, petitions received from members of the party in the ongoing internal elections.
Other members of the committee include O. B. Amoah, Gary Nimako-Marfo, Emmanuel Darkwa, Dr Kwaku Agyemang-Budu, Sophia Korkor, Dr Glover Quartey, Bright Okyere-Adjekum and Evans Nimako.
Internal wranglings
While addressing a press conference on Thursday March 10, 2022, the General Secretary reiterated that per the party’s rules and regulations, no interested party member should be denied access to nomination forms in the ongoing internal elections.
Mr Boadu, however, said the issues regarding polling station elections had been blown out of proportion on the social media.
He also condemned the pockets of disturbances and ugly scenes witnessed in some constituencies, saying the process across the country was largely successful. He said out of the 263 constituencies where polling station primaries were held, only 15 witnessed such worrying developments.
The NPP General Secretary also pointed out that the party was conducting investigations in these constituencies, and would order a re-run of the polling station elections in the affected constituencies, where the situation so demands.
Disciplinary measures
Disturbances were similarly recorded at Manhyia, in the Ashanti Region, and some parts of the Western Region, upsetting the sanctity of the otherwise orderly processes. That compelled the General Secretary to stamp his authority. He said the party was taking immediate steps to expel all the persons behind this ungodly act from the party through due process.
Mr Boadu pointed out that the party had not yet decided on the modalities for holding polling station elections in Fomena and the other nine constituencies where polling station primaries were suspended.
He explained that in the event of unnecessary frustrations by election committees, the aggrieved member has a right, through a petition, to purchase Nomination Form at the regional or national secretariat of the party.
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