The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has initiated moves to consolidate its gains in the 2008 elections in order to win the 2012 polls resoundingly.
Consequently, it has started reorganising its party structures, strengthening and expanding the party’s electoral college for the women and youth wings of the party.
Currently, the party’s national executive officers have travelled to all parts of the country to assess their performance in the 2008 elections, briefing party members about the government’s policies to explain the reasons behind all government appointments.
Briefing the Daily Graphic, the Deputy National Organiser of the NDC, Mr Yaw Boatemg-Gyan, said the national executive would also explain the time table for the election of ward, electoral area, constituency and regional executives, which will culminate in the national congress to elect national executive members to run the affairs of the party for the next four years.
He said the national executive would deal with some misunderstandings that came up during the selection of district chief executives, calm nerves and unite the people as part of the re-organisation exercise.
On the expansion of the electoral college for both the women and youth wings of the party, he said the practice whereby only regional organisers and deputies of the two wings met at national congresses to elect their executives would be a thing of the past.
He said to give real meaning to the party’s core practice of internal democracy and participatory democracy, all wards would elect their women and youth organisers who would in turn elect their constituency organisers.
This, Mr Boateng-Gyan said, would be replicated at the regional and national levels.
Asked why the party was showing keen interest in the youth and women’s wings, he said the two branches formed the foundation of the party, and that everything must be done to strengthen them.
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