Filson Awankua, a one-time chairmanship hopeful of the NPP and Founder of a group known as the Rapid Response Unit for Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, is calling for consensus building ahead of the conduct of parliamentary primaries in all 14 orphan constituencies in the Upper East Region.
Currently, interested persons have filed their nominations to contest in the various constituencies with the competition likely to be very keen especially in some of the constituencies that the party is targeting to win.
In times past, constituencies that saw very keen internal elections later had serious issues of disunity leading to the NPP losing many of the seats in the region.
From the perspective of Mr. Awankua, building census in some if not all the constituencies will be to the benefit of the party. He explains that the late chairman Adams succeeded in getting more seats for the party due to his ability to bring people on board and build a sense of understanding among key stakeholders and individuals.
It is therefore his desire that leadership of the party in the region will be able to work to reduce the intensity of the contest in some of the constituencies in order not to breed disunity.
“I’m pleading that the regional executives, they should put leadership to bear and make sure they go in for consensus so that at the end of the day, out of 15 constituencies, if we can have about 7, 8, 9, 10 that there’s no competition then we are assured that there will be unity and when there is unity, NPP can always be the winner,” he said in an interview on State of Our Nation.
“ Though people picked, people filed, they can still go on to speak to most of these candidates that they should come on-board”.
Citing himself as an example, the RRU4DMB founder, says he lost two elections yet he is working hard behind the scenes for the party and is therefore urging those vying for various slots to consider the interest of the party first as he hopes the executives will be able to reach an amicable agreement with some aspirants.
“Look at me, I lost elections twice, I’m still behind NPP. There shouldn’t always be the case that you must win, you must be there in order to perform a pivotal role. We have a lot out there that you can do. So some of them should leave. Just be innovative, be politically creative and you can be very helpful to the Party”.
