The National Chairman of the New patriotic Party, Peter Mac Manu has assured contestants and delegates to the party’s National Delegates Conference of a peaceful, just and orderly process come February 27. In an interview with Myjoyonline.com, the outgoing chairman said adequate preparations, including an elaborate security, have been made to ensure the day-long, two-tiered conference is a resounding success. The conference will hold at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi and over 4,000 delegates are expected to elect national executives. Mac Manu said the first part of the programme, a purely intra party matter as per the NPP’s constitution, will involve an address each by the National Chairman, ex-President J.A. Kufuor, the Minority Leader in Parliament and a representative of the party’s youth wing. “Then we all will cede to the Electoral Commission, the next portion of the event, that is the election aspect of the conference, and the Electoral Commission will take control to conduct the elections and release the results and the newly elected officers will then be sworn in to close the entire programme. The electoral commission in Accra has been written to and together with their officers in the Ashanti Region are feverishly preparing to conduct the elections.” “I will use this opportunity to inform contestants that the conference is going to be peaceful, orderly and fair and just so that whoever wins will have the overall embracing from the other contestants, that’s what we want and that’s what has happened in all the regional and constituency elections we’ve conducted so far.” According to Mr. Mac Manu, a national election committee, chaired by Mr. C.K. Tedam, the chairman of the party’s national council of elders, and whose membership includes the Minority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu and Brigadier Odei, who is chairman of the NPP’s research committee, have been meeting the contestants to elicit their views and to iron out bottlenecks as the build-up to the conference peak. One of such meetings is planned for Thursday, February 18, and Mac Manu counseled all contestants who have grievances to seek redress at the forum rather than run to the media to lodge complaints, describing the phenomenon as unfortunate. He also assured that a register of all delegates to the national conference is being collated from all the regions to be readied and presented to the contestants, noting the fact that the very contestants are familiar with the delegates and have been meeting them as they go about the nation in campaigning for their votes. Story by Isaac Yeboah/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana