The CEO of Youth Employment Agency (YEA), who is seeking to oust John Boadu, the incumbent General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), has promised to introduce the party to digitization to make the administrative work more efficient and effective when given the mandate to be the party’s chief administrator sometime in July, this year.
Lawyer Justin Frimpong Kodua, is of the view that it has become important to restructure internal party mechanisms to be able to continue with the Danquah-Dombo-Busia tradition that supports rule of law, healthy intraparty competition and equal opportunity for all.
Towards this end, he resolved to digitize activities of the NPP to nomination forms accessible to all, adherence to laid down processes and procedures. This to him, will reduce the general disaffection among the base of the party.
He had an 8-point agenda which promises to introduce Electronically Generated Electoral Forms (E-Forms) for all internal elections including Presidential and Parliamentary Primaries to minimize human interference in the process, introduce an NPP Electronic Register (E-Register) to maintain an efficient database of all members and introduce an NPP APP for dues collections and registration of new members.
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He is promising to introduce Biometric Party Membership Identity Cards and an NPP Electronic Information Hub (E-Information Hub or simply EIH) to facilitate timely dissemination of information on all planned programs and activities of the party.
The introduction of Electronic Reporting System (E-Reporting) to replace the manual reporting system to improve accuracy while streamlining the party’s website to make it more interactive for the vibrant and consistent engagement of the party’s social media followers. There is an urgent need to have a robust online presence.
He also promised “to enhance accessibility and constant party interactions, I shall establish a call centre. The Call Centre will certainly ensure constructive feedback from party members across the country and in the process, bring the governance of the party to the doorstep of our valued party members and sympathizers home and abroad”.
Many pundits in the ruling party are projecting the affable YEA boss, a new entrant to hardline, to upset John Boadu, who is not new to the rough and tumble of frontline politics having served in various administrative roles of the party including Youth Organizer, National Treasurer, National Organizer and General Secretary except the national chairman.
With the incumbent National Chairman, Freddie Blay leaving the stage, NPP insiders had expected Mr. Boadu to vie for the position instead of leaving it for Stephen Ntim, a former National Vice Chairman of the party, Stephen Asamoah Boateng, a former MP for the Mfantsiman West constituency and an ex-Minister for Local Government Rural Development and Environment, Tourism and Diaspora Relations.
The third man vying for the chairmanship position is the 77- year old Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi an academic and once a Minister of Education in the John Agyekum Kufour administration.
Lawyer Kodua has been arguing that “as the party is poised to break the 8-year jinx, our ability to achieve this goal is fomented on how best we restructure our internal party mechanisms to respond to this great challenge…unfortunately, the process has been marred by reports of inaccessibility of nomination forms, failure to adhere to laid down processes and a general disaffection among the base of the party”.
He added that the various viral videos of party members expressing their dissatisfaction with the process towards the internal elections depict a gloomy picture of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), going into the 2024 general elections.
He was of the view that recent events regarding the internal election process have reaffirmed his belief that the NPP cannot stick to the old ways of running the administration and expect new and improved results.
“We cannot stick to the old ways of party governance and expect new and improved results. Thanks to the innovative leadership of His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo for the technological advancement in Ghana.
He however announced his vision to clout the New Patriotic Party with the power of technology when he elected him as the next General Secretary to ensure efficient and effective party administration and governance.
He further indicated the following technological interventions as his aspirations for the New Patriotic Party (NPP):
1. Introduction of Electronically Generated Electoral Forms (E-Forms) for all internal elections including Presidential and Parliamentary Primaries to minimize human interference in the process.
2. Introduction of NPP Electronic Register (E-Register) to maintain an efficient database of all members
3. Introduction of the NPP APP for dues collections and registration of new members.
4. Introduction of Biometric Party Membership Identity Cards
5. NPP Electronic Information Hub (E-Information Hub or simply EIH) to facilitate timely dissemination of information on all planned programs and activities of the party.
6. Introduction of Electronic Reporting System (E-Reporting) to replace the manual reporting system to improve accuracy.
7. Streamlining the party’s website to make it more interactive for the vibrant and consistent engagement of the party’s social media followers. There is an urgent need to have a robust online presence.
8. To enhance accessibility and constant party interactions, I shall establish a call centre. The Call Centre will certainly ensure constructive feedback from party members across the country and in the process, bring the governance of the party to the doorstep of our valued party members and sympathizers home and abroad.
He assured that these remarkable and forward-looking interventions will be implemented within his first 100 days in office as the General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party.
“The implementation of the aforementioned interventions shall in no doubt resolve the avoidable mishaps in our internal party administration”, he indicated in a press statement copied to Peacefmonline.com.
