Accra, Aug 20, Ghanadot - The latest to offer his voice to the debate about reforms to the NPP constitution was the 2008 flagbearer of the NPP, Nana Akufo-Addo.

In an interview with the Daily Guide newspaper he expressed his support of the constitutional reform for the party.

The reform seeks to broaden the membership base for the NPP Electoral College, the ultimate machine for the selection of the party's candidates for elections.

The reformers within the NPP seek to add 105, mainly polling station officers, to the 7900 of party office holders in the country.

According to Nana Akufo-Addo, the attempt represents "a process of greater inclusion that will strengthen the party's capacity to mobilize the people behind its program."

Nana Akufo Addo also described the process as one that "has come from various sections of the party."

While he insisted that the initiative has been granted by people from the grassroots, he expressed concern for party unity and the challenges that the reforms would bring to it.

One such challenge would require 230 presidential primaries to be held simultaneously across the country, involving some 115,000 delegates.

A feature of the above challenge would be that the membership would know which constituencies voted for what candidate.

The old feature assured that all the votes in the primaries were counted together and at the end no one would know what constituency voted for whom.

The risk of showing voting pattern within the constituencies presented a problem for Nana Akufo-Addo because he claimed it would expose or encourage division within the party.

Ghanadot