Pollster Ben Ephson has admonished the National Executive Council of the opposition New Patriotic Party to review the proposalby some leading members of the party that sitting NPP Membersof Parliament should be made to retain their seats withoutgoing forprimaries.
According to him, such proposal is a ?recipe for disaster.?
Speaking in an interviewwith RadioGold,Ben Ephson was of the view that the retention of the MPsin their seats will spell doom for the party?sfortunes, come 2016.
This is because ?iftheyhave forgotten, that was the same thing that the NPP did when theystifled the attemptby persons who wanted to contest in 2008. Even with the three who went independent in 2008,theywon their seats and fourteen of such persons went independent?that accumulated in a huge drop of more than 400000votes against the NPP in 2008 (first round). So, this panacea is even worse than that,?he explained.
He also held strongly that such suggestion on the party front is ?an election-losing strategy? and a ?total disaster,?hence the need for a thorough evaluation to be done by the executives before consideringthe possibilityto retain the MPs or go for an early congress.
Touching on the proposalbefore the partyto go foran early congress to elect a Presidential candidate, Ben Ephson disagreed with the party?s position and positedthat the proponents ?feel threatened,? a reason for their proposition.
He explained that the NPP willbe using the same Electoral College in 2010 which would not augur well forthe party and also revealed that some regionaland national executives of the partyare behind the move to go foran early congress.
Source-Peacefmonline
