NDC keen on ensuring competition at the parliamentary primaries

Kotwi (Ash), July 16, GNA - A National Democratic Congress (NDC) activist has said the party was keen on ensuring competition at the parliamentary primaries.

Mr Alex Yaw Poku, Ashanti Regional Deputy Propaganda Secretary of the Party, said its focus on encouraging more members to contest the primaries stemmed from the realisation that "it is through stiff competition that the best candidate can emerge".

Mr Poku was inaugurating a number of sub-committees for the Atwima-Kwanwoma Constituency of the party at Kotwi, in the Bosomtwe-Atwima-Kwanwoma District on Tuesday.

The committees included Finance, Propaganda, Organisation, Welfare and Discipline and formed part of an exercise to revamp sub-structures of the party to enable them to perform more potently with the approach of the general election.

Mr Poku, who also oversees activities in the Offinso North, Kumawu and Atwima-Kwanwoma Constituencies of the party, said filing of nominations for the parliamentary slot was not confined to a selected few but opened to all qualified members.

Alhaji Oheneba Kyem, Atwima-Kwanwoma Constituency Chairman of the NDC, called on the Party Leadership at the national level to give priority attention to the Ashanti Region in the allocation of logistics and resources.

Alhaji Kyem advised party members to re-direct the energy and resources they dissipated on petty squabbles into evolving innovative strategies that would propel the NDC into victory come 2004.