Aspiring NPP Chairman slams factionalism in party

An aspiring national chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Paul Afoko, on Tuesday asserted that factionalism had done a great disservice to the fortunes of the party.

He said the party needed rebranding to counteract the perception by its political opponents as an elitist and ethnic-based party in order to woo more members to wrest power from the ruling National Democratic Congress via the 2016 general election.

Mr Afoko, an oil magnate, real estate developer and farmer, made that assertion when he visited the Hohoe North and the Afadzato South constituencies in the Volta Region to canvass for votes.

He said the NPP needed a leader, servant, honest broker and unifier to harness and nurture its fortunes and make it formidable for 2016.

He said he would initiate a “New Plan for Power”  by introducing systems and far-reaching structures to invigorate the party.

He pledged to close the gap between the party’s rank and file, and forge partnership with all, especially through structures that broadened the political space for easy engagement.

Mr Afoko said his most essential preoccupation would be to make the party stronger in the Volta, Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions.

“I see poverty and under-development resulting from leadership pitfalls staring the populace in the face, in spite of the country being endowed with natural resources,” he observed.
 
“My leadership will champion and re-engineer selflessness, hard work and excellence,” he added.