Bright Essilfie Kumi, a national organiser aspirant of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has called for a paradigm shift in the election of national officers for the party.
Kumi said it will help attract qualified personnel to steer the affairs of the party in the lead up to the 2024 elections.
“I have to say that currently, what is being run in the party is an auction and not an election; the highest bidder is the one who seemingly wins,” Kumi said on The Asaase Breakfast Show on Monday (27 June).
“The NPP has lost so many good leaders because of the culture of payment for votes that has been cultivated in the party. We need a proper structure for our followership because they are the ones who vote leaders into power,” he said.
“The good leader is one who looks forward but also looks back to ensure that followers are in the right frame of mind; this has been where we have lapsed as a party,” Kumi told the show host Kwaku Nhyira-Addo.
“People are not speaking truth and the lack of this is desensitising the grassroot of the party. We really need to be careful [about] the posture we are putting out there as a party.”
The national executive elections will take place in mid-July.
Fred Dzakpata
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