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J.
A. KUFUOR HEADS NPP
CAMPAIGN ADVISORY BOARD
The 2012 Campaign Manager of the New Patriotic Party, Boakye
Kyerematen Agyarko, has been
outlining the campaign structure to the party’s regional and
constituency executives and parliamentary candidates
during Nana Akufo-Addo’s ongoing
‘All Hands on Deck’ national tour.
The tour has so far taken the team, which includes the
National Chairman Jake
Obetesbi-Lamptey and General Secretary Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie,
to the Central, Ashanti and Brong
Ahafo Regions, taking the message of unity for victory in
2012 further to the Northern
Region on Sunday, Upper East Region on Monday and
Upper East on Tuesday.
Mr Boakye Agyarko has announced that the 2012 campaign of
the NPP will be “Electoral Area
and Polling Station based”, describing it as “total
grassroots campaign” and that the
constituency officers will serve as “supervisors” for the
grassroots-based campaign.
Speaking to both winners and losers of the recently held
parliamentary primaries, the
Campaign Manager announced that at the top structure of the
2012 NPP campaign is a special
body, the Campaign Advisory Board (CAB), which is headed
by former President John Agyekum Kufuor.
The advisory board has former Vice President Alhaji Aliu
Mahama as its Vice Chairman. Other
members are the Flagbearer Nana Akufo-Addo, Jake
Obetsebi-Lamptey, Minority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu,
Boakye Agyarko, and two women of
immense political experience to be appointed by the
Flagbearer.
Boakye Agyarko explains that the work of CAB is “basically
to serve as a kind of council of
state for the 2012 campaign. It will guide the campaign. It
is there for the campaign to refer
matters to, run ideas by them and they may also offer ideas
and suggestions and when they see something they may
quickly draw the campaign team’s
attention to it for appropriate action to be taken.”
He says the former President has “a wealth of experience in
presidential
campaigns from which the 2012 campaign is happy to be
drawing in a well structured
manner. We are all united in our determined, dedicated and
disciplined effort to win power
next year, offer real political leadership and bring back
hope to the people of this
country. ”
Mr J A Kufuor, the Chairman of CAB, first contested for the
NPP’s maiden presidential
nomination in 1992, coming third to Prof Albert Adu Boahen.
In 1996 he won the party’s
nomination but lost the presidential election to President J
J Rawlings.
He returned, after being retained by the party, to defeat
Vice President J E A Mills in the
2000 election. He went on to defeat Prof Mills again in
2004, serving two terms as
President of the Republic with Alhaji Aliu Mahama as his
Vice President for both terms.
Mr Kufuor, who was first elected as an MP in 1969, comes to
the 2012 campaign with over 42
years of political experience behind him.
“Nana Akufo-Addo is naturally thrilled by the former
President’s strong enthusiasm for
this campaign. The NPP is the party united for victory in
2012,” Mr Boakye Agyarko
underlined.
.......Signed...........
Perry Okudzeto
Dep. Communications Director |
