NPP’s Daavi Ama poses question

Daavi Ama, former national treasurer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has tasked women in the party to stop contesting what she describes as “sympathy positions”.

She said the party’s women are always playing second fiddle to the males insisting that it appears the party’s top jobs were entirely their preserve.

In the view of the leading member of the largest opposition party, the dust is settling down on the list of people vying for the top positions in the regional and national levels but no name of a single woman has come up for consideration.

The NPP is gearing up for the election of its national officers.

So far names of party bigwigs vying for the chairmanship position of the NPP include the incumbent Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey, Fred Oware, Stephen Ntim and Paul Afoko.

The general secretary slot of the party also features name of party giants like Yaw Boabeng Asamoah, Kwabena Adjei Agyapong, Nkrabea Effah Dartey and incumbent Kwadwo Owusu Afiriyie known in political spheres as “Sir John” seeking re-election.

But Daavi Ama in an interview with DAILY GUIDE was emphatic that both the party’s new and old constitutions did not allocate any position to the males in the party.

She stated: “There is no single woman vying for any of the top positions except for the vice positions …There is nowhere in the NPPs first and second constitutions that stipulates that it is only the males who should vie for those positions listed.”

The former NPP National Treasurer noted she sincerely had nothing against the names that had come up so far for the various top positions, adding, “they are all good candidates, some of them can even go in for the flagbearership if they choose to do so”.

“In all humility, I decided to go for the treasureship for the first time in the history of the Danquah-Busia tradition and since then, most of my female counterparts have been going in for that position”.

While stressing that the NPP’s women should desist from contesting what she termed ‘sympathy positions’ or pleading to go unopposed, she said the women in the party should strive to always challenge their male counterparts.