Leading contender in the NPP National Chairmanship race, Professor Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi has charged the women in the Tertiary Students Confederacy (TESCON) to aspire to get onto the party’s executive positions at all levels as they form the base of every human organizations. 

According to him, there is the need for the party to sufficiently motivate women to also be in the forefront of the party’s activities in the form of appointments.

"The time has come for the party to introduce structures that would give women the opportunity to  occupy leadership roles which would in the long run prepare them for government appointments in future," he said.

Prof. Ameyaw-Akumfi, who has  been appointed as the Board Chairman of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) was speaking at a programme organized by the TESCON Women’s Commission of the University of Ghana.

He used the platform to charge party members to come out with a database platform to accelerate employment placement for TESCON members.

He said serious party communicators and researchers can be drawn from such a platform. ‘’Tesconians form a pool of party communicators and we have to urge them to actively articulate the achievements of the Nana Akufo-Addo led NPP government’’. 

The NPP National Chairman Hopeful reiterated the need for party members to eschew all forms of negative actions that will derail its determination to break the eight in the 2024 general elections and called for unity, discipline and commitment among members of the party.

The theme of the programme was: “Breaking the Eight, the Strategic Positioning of TESCON Ladies’’ and other speakers present include the Member of Parliament for Ayawaso West Wuogon, Hon Lydia Seryam Alhassan, MP for Effiduasi- Asokore Constituency, Dr. Nana Ayew Afriyie, H.E. Edward Boateng, CEO for TOR and former Ghana’s Ambassador to China.