Ga Chiefs Greet NPP

The Ga Chiefs with Freddie Blay (seated middle)

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has received praises from a section of Ga chiefs for the party's move to allow winnable candidates from Ga communities to contest NPP parliamentary seats.

The chiefs, who eulogized the party during a meeting with its first vice chairman, Hon. Freddie Blay, expressed thankfulness to it (NPP) for taking the bold decision to encourage Ga indigenes to participate actively in its affairs.

Nii Kwaku Botwe IV, who led the delegation of about five traditional rulers, described the decision as a 'bold one.'

He said the move by the NPP would help Ga communities to fully participate in the activities of the party and urged other political parties to follow suit.

Although not all members of the party – particularly those who are not Ga indigenes but wish to contest parliamentary seats – are satisfied with the decision, Nii Kwaku Botwe IV insisted that the decision was in the right direction and that all supporters must rally behind the party over the decision.

He stressed the need for political parties to select candidates from within communities where they (candidates) originate to contest for political positions in those areas so as to allow for the right candidates who can better understand the problems of those communities, to be elected.

He pledged on behalf of members of his delegation – which included Elder Nii Allotey of the Ingleshie Amanfrom Stool; Okyeame Ahene, Lamgba among others - that he would urge NPP members in Ga communities to reciprocate the gesture by actively getting involved in the activities of the party.

Hon. Freddie Blay expressed profound appreciation to the traditional rulers and thanked them for hailing the party's decision as a noble one.

'I would have been much happier if you had met a cross-section of the members of the party,' he told his guests.

According to him, the party was not just creating a quota for people, but encouraging the members of the communities to as much as possible try to fill the winnable seats in their areas.

He said the decision was not to discriminate against any candidate or a section of the party, but rather to encourage members along the coast to actively participate in the affairs of the party.

He assured the traditional rulers that he would pay a courtesy call on them in due course.

By Jamila Akweley Okertchiri