Doors Open to Danquah/Busia family -NPP

Koforidua, Nov 28, GNA- The General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Dan Botwe, has said the party is ready to welcome home all members of the Danquah/Busia tradition who found themselves in the National Democratic Party (NDC) and other political groupings for various reasons, provided such people would follow the laid down procedures of the party.

He said even if the NPP should win all the 200 Parliamentary seats in the 2004 elections by its tradition and nature the "party would never be dictatorial in its politicies."

Mr. Botwe was speaking at a Press soiree at the end of a three-day capacity building workshop organised by the party for its regional and constituency executives in the Eastern Region at Koforidua.

He said the party had suspended the organisation of primaries throughout the country because most of the branches in the constituencies failed to meet the party's requirement that each constituency should submit an album of pictures of all members of the Electoral College who elected the current constituency executives to the national secretariat.

Mr Botwe said as a result of that, only 15 primaries had so far been conducted out of over 80 primaries to be conducted in the constituencies where the NPP has no sitting MPs.

''It is based on the party's policy that all the primaries in the Volta Region had been nullified'', he said.

He said to ensure that the sitting MPs concentrate on their work the party had directed that primaries be organised in their constituencies in June next year.

Mr Botwe said the party does not believe that any candidate could bribe the electoral college at the primaries to win their votes because "members of the party would always vote for people they believe would win the seat for the party."