A traditional leader has appealed to the National Council of Elders and the functional leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to be more proactive, bring together and unite the aspirants contesting the party’s presidential primaries.

Describing the current state of the NPP as not the best for the Election 2024, the chief, Obrempong Kwasi Boanu, the ‘Kyidomhene’ (chief in-charge of crowd) of Adantia Divisional Council in the Sunyani West Municipality reminded the leadership, presidential aspirants and their followers as well as the entire party supporters that the NPP required a formidable force to “break the eight” in the next general election.

Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Adantia, Obrempong Boanu, also a patron of the Party in the region said, “the current happenings in the NPP is despicable and if we are not careful, the Party would surrender political power in the election 2024.”

The chief expressed disgust about what he described as the “on-going verbal battle and attacks” among some of the presidential aspirants, worrying that if the aspirants were not brought together to see themselves as one party fighting a common enemy, then the NPP must prepare for election defeat in 2024.

Obrempong Boanu said all the aspirants were qualified and competent enough to lead the NPP in the next general election, but “we must remember we need only a flagbearer for the election.”

“So, it would therefore be appropriate and prudent for the leadership and the National Council of Elders to sit these aspirants down and let them understand that our political victory in 2024 lies in their hands.

“In fact, if these aspirants are really loyal, and seek the supreme interest of our great party, then they must understand that their behavior could make or unmake the NPP in the next general election,” Obrempong Boanu stated.

The Kyidomhene said what the NPP delegates and the entire voting population required from the presidential aspirants were their vision for the NPP and Ghana in general, but not “who is capable and incapable to lead the Party in the Election 2024”.

Touching on the general performance of the government, Obrempong Boanu said despite certain lapses, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo had performed creditably well, saying it behooved on the Party’s communication team to propagate the achievements of the government.

Comparatively, he said the government’s numerous social intervention programmes “has placed the NPP above the NDC and put the NPP on the edge to retain political power in 2024.”

Obrempong Boanu however, cautioned any form of complacency would not augur well for the Party, and appealed to the NPP supporters and communicators to endeavour to reach out to the masses with the achievements of the Party to enhance its political fortunes.

“The party must also do more to adequately resource the constituency and polling station executives to enable them to intensify the electioneering at the grassroots level,” he added.

So far, the NPP’s Vetting Committee has cleared 10 presidential aspirants who filed their nominations to contest the Party’s primaries to lead the NPP in the Election 2024.

They John Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, Kwadwo Poku, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Boakye Agyarko, Kwabena Agyei Agyapong, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, Dr. Kofi Konadu Apraku, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, Joe Ghartey and Francis Addai-Nimoh.