PPP Adopting Innovative Means To Win More Supporters - Asamoah

The interim General Secretary of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Mr Kofi Asamoah, has said the party is adopting innovative ways to attract more Ghanaians into its fold.

The PPP, according to Mr Asamoah, has employed the services of volunteers from all walks of life to preach its message.

It has also formed the Progressive Youth Movements (PYM), which is its tertiary wing in more than 48 tertiary institutions across the country.

The party will soon move to begin its constituency primaries in all 230 constituencies with a deliberate policy to draw more women and young people to stand on its ticket.

Mr Asamoah also added that the party was poised to win power in the 2012 general elections.

He said after the party’s founder, Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, declared the party’s formation on the 28th of December 2011, its rank and file moved on to establish constituency, regional and national offices and register card-bearing members on a daily basis.

According to him, the 170 founder members of the party were able to complete the electoral commission’s certificate requirements in a record 48 hours to get it registered.

Speaking at the PPP’s maiden convention at the Accra Sports Stadium over the weekend, Mr Asamoah said the party’s ability to pull hundreds of delegates who attended the gathering, from all the ten regions of Ghana in less than three months of its formation, demonstrated its strength on the ground.

He said they had already inaugurated interim executives in all constituencies, regions and were currently setting up a national headquarters, that would be furnished with state-of-the-art communication facilities to make party organisation effective.

The PPP’s interim Women’s Organiser, Mrs Bulley, said the party was the only political organisation in Ghana that had specific policies that targeted the betterment of women.

She said a PPP government would ensure that at least 20 per cent of its representation in parliament were women.

An Nduom-led government, according to Mrs Bulley, will reserve at least 20 per cent of all political appointments for competent women.

According to her, sustainable development of any nation is impossible without the active contribution of its women.

She asserted that no government had championed a clear-cut policy focused on women over the past 30 years.

Mrs Bulley said the party was demonstrating its commitment to women’s cause by ensuring that a majority of its interim executive members were women.

She said the party was going to fight for the cause of women as a government. She, therefore, called on women who were eager to take up political leadership to join the PPP.

The convention, which drew over 1,000 delegates from all ten regions, was aimed at introducing the party’s platform to the Ghanaian electorate as a possible third force in the country’s electoral process.

It also served as a platform for a membership drive. There were solidarity messages from the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the People’s National Convention (PNC) and the Convention People’s Party (CPP).