Boakye Agyarko Writes: The NPP Timetable For Primaries; Let Us For Once Strive To Get It Right.

This matter was thoroughly debated by the National Council, after taking all necessary factors into considerations, decided to recommend to this conference that the election of our presidential candidate should take place in March, 1996.It is a recommendation which I urge this conference to endorse.

If we think in terms of the Party’s best interest and not the personal convenience of aspirants then I do not see any reason why there should be any further squabbles over the date of election of our candidates.By March, 1996 we would have had behind us the demanding task of getting our people to register.

We should have laid down the framework for our election campaign and mobilize the necessary man power and material resources to take off.

There is the further consideration that we shall have had time to have done everything possible in the way of securing the co- operation of the other opposition parties if possible.

I have no doubt that between March and November, 1996 we have ample time to conduct an election campaign which should reach its peak at just the right time.I should like to admonish all aspirants to remember that they are colleagues inside the same Party, having identical political interests.

One may only surmise that it amounts to nothing more than a nefarious attempt either to impose a narrow will on a silent majority or in a usual style, "mafia" some people to their detriment and an undeserved advantage of others.So here we are in 2023, and like the Bourbons, we learnt nothing so we forgot nothing, and are therefore back to this unwholesome, circular argument, largely driven by inordinate and unbridled narrow ambitions.The main argument seems now have been reduced to the imagination that we will need sufficient time to heal wounds, smoothen ruffled feature and assuage wounded sentiments.

Unfortunately, the truth of the matter and our disposition has already been to misuse the discretion to the detriment of those we perceive to be our internal opponents.It is better to be put into constitutional structures and only relex them by special resolutions as and when the matter becomes self-evident, and not vice versa.For those who have made it their game to “mafia” opponents, both at the parliamentary and presidential primaries, they ought to think hard and pin their eyes to the lessons of history and our own track record- a record that firmly resists ossified dictatorship and impisitionists.Our elders say, “sɛ wo tietia obi deɛ so hwehwɛ wo deɛ a, wo renhunu”, to wit, if you trample on what belongs to others in search of what may legitimately be yours, you will never find it.It is also said that, “those who destroy others to succeed will surely meet destruction at the gate of their own success.