Accra: Nana Obiri Boahen, a Former Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has lauded certain changes in the party's constitution, describing the recently concluded delegates conference of the party as exceptional in the political history of the NPP.
According to Ghana News Agency, the NPP delegates at the party's highest decision-making conference in Accra voted to expand the electoral college by 40 percent. With this decision, the party has added more than 60,000 polling station executives to the existing 220,000, widening the size of the electoral college to over 280,000 voters. This means that all former Members of Parliament (MPs), Parliamentary Candidates, Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs), card-holding ministers and deputy ministers, as well as regional, constituency, and branch executives, will participate in the election of the flagbearer in January 2026.
Commenting on the outcome of the party's delegates conference in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Sunyani, Nana Boahen said, "The expansion of the NPP's electoral college is the best way to go for now. We anticipate that as our great party progresses, every card-bearing member will be given equal opportunity in the highest decision-making process of the party," he stated.
Nana Boahen, who has been a delegate since 1992, expressed that the decisions taken and amendments made at the 2025 conference are the best so far. He explained that expanding the party's electoral college for all card-bearing members to participate in the decision-making process would instill a collective sense of ownership, thereby inspiring party members to remain loyal to the 'elephant family.'
He further noted, "With that sense of belongingness and loyalty, all the party people will contribute their quota selflessly to the growth and development of the NPP and thereby enhance our political fortunes in election years."
