The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has scheduled May 4, 2019, to elect executives for the newly created regions in the country.
“The NPP shall, pursuant to Article 18 of the party’s constitution and notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, hold an extraordinary regional annual delegates conference on May 4, 2019, to elect officers to occupy vacant regional executive positions, occasioned by the recent regional reorganisation.”
This was
contained in a statement signed and issued by John Boadu, General Secretary of
the NPP and was decided at the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC)
meeting held on March 12, 2019, which was also endorsed by the party’s National
Council.
Earlier, the party directed its current regional
executives to oversee the six newly created regions until substantive
executives are elected to fill such positions for North East, Ahafo, Bono East,
Western North, Oti and Savannah.
The statement
said “the NPP in pursuant of Article 18 of the party’s constitution and
notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, hold an extraordinary regional
annual delegates conference on May 4, 2019, to elect officers to occupy vacant
regional executive positions, occasioned by the recent regional reorganisation”.
It said NEC had, as part of the regulations
governing the impending conference, directed all persons serving as regional
executives (appointed/elected) in regions that have been split, have the option
of choosing where they want to be and would maintain their current positions.
“If any regional officer is desirous of contesting for a different
position, then he/she should vacate his/her current position, to be eligible to
contest for the new position consequently, the position he/she was occupying
would be declared vacant for fresh nominations to be filed,” it said.
The statement said the National Council approved
the composition of standing and ad hoc committees of the council comprising
Finance, Constitutional and Legal, Vetting, Organisational, Research, National
Disciplinary, Dispute Resolution, Information Communication Technology,
Welfare, Elections, Events and Communications Committees, and approved
additional names to the party’s National Council of Elders which would soon be
inaugurated.
On the impending extraordinary regional
delegates conference, it said the party would soon come out with guidelines and
modalities for the conduct of the conference in all the affected regions and is
expecting all stakeholders would be guided by the directives.
The meeting had in attendance President Nana Akufo-Addo, Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, the Chief of Staff, Frema Osei-Pare; the party’s National Chairman, Freddie Blay and other NEC members. -citinewsroom.com
