First vice constituency chairman of Dome-Kwabenya for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Paul Opoku has indicated that the guidelines for the NPP Presidential primaries is critical to the party’s quest to break-the-eight-year jinx.
Speaking on Movement In The Morning show on Movement TV/ Wontumi Radio, he was of the firm conviction that the party will conduct free, fair, and transparent elections without any bias, fear, or favour.
“I’m extremely satisfy with the process thus far…. what we need to know is that the focus of the party is unity…with the laid-out guidelines by the party, it will be strange for an aspirant who loses to say that he wasn’t treat fairly…unless of course, something happens on the day of elections…other than that, as it stands nothing of sort could happen”, he emphasized.
The guidelines agreed upon by the aspirants will regulate the conduct of the Special Electoral College election to prune the 10 presidential aspirants to five, and for the presidential primary set for November 4 to finally elect the flag bearer of the party for the 2024 general election.
Guidelines
Some of the key guidelines of the party are that no aspirant will appoint government officials and any delegate listed to vote in the elections as agents (whether Special Electoral College or the Main Election).
The government officials include but are not limited to Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives, Ministers of State and Chief Executive Officers of state-owned enterprises, Regional Executives and Constituency Executives.
The guidelines further indicate that the Electoral Commission (EC) and the Police should enforce and prevent delegates from taking their phones and other photographic gadgets to the voting screen.
Additionally, the EC will use complex serial numbers to avoid ballots being traced to voters at a later date, and that the Electoral Management body should deny influencers and “Machomen” access to the voting centres.