PNC restructure for Election 2012

THE People’s National Convention (PNC) is restructuring the party structures in readiness for its national delegates conference and subsequently with the intention to win the 2012 elections.
The move is to ensure that the party has a new national executive and a presidential candidate in place.
This has become necessary because of the early exit of Dr Edward Mahama, the 2000, 2004 and 2008 presidential candidate of the party and his decision not to contest the position again.
Although the term of office of the current national executive would elapse in 2011, they have decided to go for early congress in 2010 to offer the party enough time to organise itself properly.
For a start, it has directed all regional executives of the party to ensure that all the constituency and regional elections are held to elect new officers and compile the names of national delegates participants, so that early 2010, the party can elect national officers and presidential candidates.
According to Mr Bennard Mornah, the General Secretary of the party, the PNC is poised to better its chances to increase the number of its Members of Parliament (MP) and consequently win the 2012 general election.
Asked about the personalities who have shown interest in the national positions and the flag-bearership, Mr Mornah said “very exciting names” have been coming up, and added that these developments would make their congress one of the most keenly contested.
Regarding the protracted but unsuccessful unity talks with the Convention People’s Party (CPP), he said the impediments had always come from the CPP, who have not followed the agreed principles reached.
He challenged the CPP to put in public domain in what form it wanted the unity talks to take and also come clean instead of making blanket statements to the effect that all Nkrumaists should join the CPP unconditionally.
“They should honestly tell the entire world what they want us to do,” Mr Mornah said, and added that politics was about numbers, therefore, the CPP should always bear in mind that the PNC had always done better than them in terms of obtaining seats in Parliament.
He said the only time the CPP got more MPs than the PNC in recent times was when it aligned itself with their ideologically opposed friends, the NPP.