The National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey has announced that he will seek re-election.
He made this known in a statement he signed and issued. According to him, ?now that almost all constituency executives are in place ? this is the time for me to announce formally that I will be seeking to be re-elected as your National Chairman.?
He said the party did well in 2012 but will have to do better in 2016 adding that by that there is a ?need to build on the experience and?learning?s we have gained. That is why I am offering myself with my experience and learning?s of especially the last election, for re-election and for ?Victory 2016?.
According to Jake, ?the party needs to look at its achievements, as they have elected almost 130,000 polling station executives across the country. “We have also successfully elected executives for over 90% of the 275 constituencies. This would be a?high pass?mark in any examination. So I say Ayekoo.”
He indicated that the NPP has demonstrated that its internal democracy works well, alluding it to the great successes they had with their Presidential and Parliamentary primaries of 2010 and 2011.
“We should take encouragement from what we do well, to do even better.?Now that almost all constituency executives are in place we have our electoral college for the Regional and National Executives elections. So this is the time for me to announce formally that I will be seeking to be re-elected as your National Chairman. I believe we did well in 2012 but we need to do better in 2016 and to do that we need to build on the experience and learnings we have gained,” he said.
He therefore availed himself for another term as the party’s national chairman, saying that “That is why I am offering myself with my experience and learnings of especially the last election, for re-election and for ?Victory 2016?.
He also congratulated the members of the NPP party for the matured way in which internal competition was handled.
