A former national chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Peter Mac Manu, has said the governing party has all it takes to win the 2024 elections.
Mac Manu said the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has shown that it is incapable of big wins when it comes to national elections.
He said with a united front, the NPP can win the next general election.
Speaking with Nana Yaa Mensah on Sunday Night on Asaase 99.5, Accra, Mac Manu said, “If you look at the past election results it tells you that if you put the late President Rawlings from the NDC stock aside, the NDC has not won any elections beyond any appreciable levels …
“NPP has the base. Our base is stronger than theirs [the NDC’s] because when we win, we win with huge margins.
“So, where we stand now, I think that we have all it takes to ‘break the 8’. We [the NPP] are superb in terms of internal democracy.”
Primaries poser
Mac Manu added: “People are getting worried about our next primaries … and we are maturing [in terms of] giving support to whoever emerges as our candidate. I do not expect anybody to single himself out because he has lost the primaries.
“We have built a party on a sense of unity and we have all the various machinery to bring unity post-primaries available.”
On whether the chaotic selection of a flagbearer in the lead-up to the 2008 election contributed to the party’s loss, Mac Manu said: “I think that complacency was part of the lost and that because of the massive work; the infrastructure that President Kufuor had built, we thought that alone could win us the elections but even if we built the infrastructure you will have to propagate the story and that wasn’t good enough.”
“But times have changed; our party structures, machinery and our system of communicating have changed … and the dynamics are quite different.”
“Long campaign”
The former NPP national chairman said there is no need for anyone to compare the NPP to the NDC and question why the governing party has not set a date for its internal elections.
“For me, I do not understand why we want a long campaign.
“If we elect people now it means they will have to campaign for two years. It is never done anywhere …” he said.
Watch the full version of “Sunday Night” with Peter Mac Manu on Asaase’s Facebook page.
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