JOHN BOADU SHEDS MORE LIGHT ON THE RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY NATIONAL CONFERENCE AND THE ROADMAP TO THE REVIEW OF THE NPP CONSTITUTION

JOHN BOADU SHEDS MORE LIGHT ON THE RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY NATIONAL CONFERENCE AND THE ROADMAP TO THE REVIEW OF THE NPP CONSTITUTION

The acting General Secretary of the NPP, John Boadu has thrown more light on resolutions adopted at the 2017 National Annual Delegates Conference of the party which was held at the University of Cape Coast. He also gave some further and better particulars in respect of the processes that would lead to the review of the party constitution and the adoption of same. In an interview he granted Adom fm, John Boadu stated that national conference, which is the highest decision making body of the party, has unanimously resolved that, the party's National Council should set up a committee to streamline all the proposals for amendments that have been received from across the country and the party's external branches. 

This became necessary because of the bulky nature of the proposals which were compiled into a single document and distributed to the relevant stakeholders of the party by the general secretary in pursuance to Article.. of the NPP constitution. This made it practically impossible for the conference to, within a day, deliberate on each proposal and pass the relevant resolution. It also dawned on national conference that, there has been some duplications in respect of the proposals for amendments to certain provisions in the party constitution; hence the need for some fine-tuning with the view to making the document less bulky and reader-friendly for purposes of facilitating its adoption or otherwise.

The other reason necessitating the referral of the document (amendment proposals) to the yet to be established committee, according to John Boadu, has to do with the fact that most of the resolutions received from the regions for onward adoption at national conference are in fact, proposals for constitutional amendments. But, of course, the date of receipt of these regional resolutions, which turned out to be proposals for amendments, make it impossible for national conference to consider them since the constitution provides that such proposals ought to reach National Secretariat, at least one clear month before national conference is held. The decision to do further works on the document by the committee therefore takes care of this 'anomaly'.

The committee, once it has been constituted, is expected to do its work and report back to national conference not later than two months, by which time, the party would be holding an extraordinary national delegates conference. This extraordinary conference, according to the NPP Chief Scribe, would come off between the 2nd and 3rd week of December, 2017 subject to the consideration of National Council. The conference, John Boadu stated, would concern itself with ONLY ONE THING, which is, consideration and adoption of the report (draft constitution) of the committee leading to the promulgation of a revised constitution for the party. 

By Iddi Muhayu-Deen