NPP youths rally Nana Poku Frefre for National Youth Organiser position

Some youth sympathizers of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) says, Director of Communications of the Scotland Chapter, Nana Poku Frefre is the best candidate to effectively mobilize the party’s youth and non-party youth towards “Breaking the 8” agenda in 2024.

Social media has been taken by storm, with posters and flyers rallying for Nana Poku for the national youth position of the party.

Speaking to some supporters, they explained that giving Nana Poku the mandate to lead the youth of the party would provide a strong party leadership at the youth level needed to plan and execute the party’s activities on the ground more effectively.

"We need the right party leadership to effectively lead the youth, engage and coordinate operations as required, we need to seize the opportunity to reach out to our NPP sympathisers, particularly the disgruntled ones and bring them on board by addressing their concerns", one supporter asserted.

As part of their call for the Scotland Director of Communications, the supporters say, he is ‘Frefre Dom’, to wit, mobilise the masses.

According to them, this will be a campaign code name that symbolizes his ability to mobilise, attract and command the masses.

“To break the 8, the party would need a Youth leader who has the charisma and ability to mobilise the supporters and sympathisers with superior strategy. As the National Youth Organiser, Frefre would work to achieve massive grassroots mobilisation to a level never experienced before in the party circles.”

They said, “Frefre Dom” has served and continue to serve the party at various levels at the grassroots including being one of the pioneers to take advantage of the new media or social media, as a tool of mobilisation for outreach campaign programmes across the country for the party.

"Again, is typical grassroots mobiliser, organising outreach campaign programmes at the hinterlands and even in public transport, with the aim of projecting the message, candidates and positives of the NPP to the average Ghanaian.

"If the NPP is looking to raise its stock, so to speak, and break the 8, it should be quick to choose this man as its National Youth Organiser. The profile of Nana Poku Frefre fits the bill and the NPP has its man who will combine both professional expertise and political experience to carve and market for appropriate messages that would be gladly accepted by the average Ghanaian as he would bring his marketing skills to bear.

“His Human Resources Management skills would also be key because we would need a youth leader that can manage the mood and temperament of our vibrant young supporters as we go into elections 2024,” a supporter added.

Nana Poku Frefre has an immense leadership acumen that traces back to his student politics and activism days, which include a Students Representative Council (SRC) General Secretary and later, SRC President, of the Institute of Management Studies. He was also a leading and influential member of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) and Ghana Union of Professional Students (GUPS) between the years 2006 and 2010.

At mainstream politics, he has served and worked as aide to National Officers and leading members of the NPP. He is currently the Director of Communications of the NPP North of Scotland Chapter, which he is a founding member of. He is also the Deputy Director of Networking at the Ashanti Regional Youth Wing of the party, and was as well, a member of the Elections 2020 Campaign Team of the Ashanti Region.

According to an intimidating academic background of his circulating on social media by his supporters, his academic credentials include a Marketing (CIM-UK) background and first degree in Human Resources Management all from the Institute of Management Studies, a Certificate in Cyber Intelligence and Forensics from the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre and three Master’s Degrees (MA Peace and Security Studies from the University of Cape Coast, MSc. Energy and Sustainable Management from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and MBA Energy Management from the University of Aberdeen, UK).

Nana Poku Frefre’s Professional Affiliations and memberships include an Associate Member of the Energy Institute of the UK and a Professional Member of the globally-acclaimed Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).