As a follow up on directive issued to the rank and file of the New Patriotic Party regarding its upcoming National Delegates Conference, the party’s General Secretary has exempted the use of Akufo-Addo branded materials.
According to Mr. John Boadu in an interview with Kumasi-based Angel FM, the party will only admit persons with President Nana Akufo-Addo’s paraphernalia and or T-Shirts and party colors into the conference grounds.
“Prior to our national conference in Cape Coast in 2016, we issued a similar statement and so I don’t see anything new here.
“If you’re a supporter and you’ve Adu Boahene, Kuffour and Akufo-Addo’s T-shirts or party colours, you can wear them. But individual contestants’ campaign materials are what we’re against” said the General Secretary to Kwame Tanko host of the Angel in the morning show on Monday December 13, 2021.
When asked whether or not the Vice President’s paraphernalia will be accepted, Mr. Boadu who appeared to have been ambushed with the question said “Well, maybe, because he’s the Vice President but if possible do away with it.”
“I think the party will be strict in this directive,” he stressed.
It would be recalled that the NPP issued a issued a directive a couple of weeks ago in which it restricted party members and sympathizers on the paraphernalia to clad themselves in so as not to mar the delegate conference the party hopes to hold peacefully.
Parts of the paragraphs in the statement thus read: “No t-shirts, flyers, brochures, and or souvenirs, branded and or embossed with the portraits and names of individuals, shall be allowed within the precincts of the Conference, including but not limited to places of accommodation for delegates.
“Any person, with or without their consent, whose image is flaunted on any advocacy material and who does not take active steps to desist from any public displays of aspiration for position within the precincts of Greater Kumasi, runs a higher risk of disqualification in the event nominations are declared opened.”
John Boadu however assured that all is set for the event which begins with a Muslim prayer on Friday at the Central Mosque.
