Deputy Upper East Regional Communication Director of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Andrew Asungiiba Atariwini has bemoaned what he says is the unbefitting structures used as constituencies offices of the party in the region.
According to Mr. Atariwini, while big guns of the NPP are jostling and splashing out resources in attempts to induce delegates to elect them for positions in the party, its constituency executives in the 15 constituencies are housed in substandard offices with no proper setup for administrative work.
“In all the fifteen constituencies, I am yet to see a proper and befitting party office housing our executives for good administrative functions. From every piece of research in the region, it is trite that the party lacks offices,” he lamented.
This, he believes, is a dent on the party and could affect its appeal to the people of the region.
He indicated that more and more Ghanaians especially residents of the Upper East Region now find the NPP attractive and willing to join it hence, it must brand and position itself to attract even more.
Andrew Atariwini is disturbed that the party after being in power for this long with its members particularly from the region holding key positions in the government failed to upgrade its offices to ultramodern ones.
“We have benefited from the magnanimity of the Ghanaian people to be in power twice. If we cannot change the narrative in this sense, taking consolation from the likes of the CPP, PNC, APC among others as benchmarks is nauseating to say it mildly”.
He continued “is it not worrying that when the Ghanaian people are now demonstrating in enviable terms affinity with our ideology, brand and policies in the region, we as a party are not seeing the urgent need to properly upgrade our offices in other to deepen the operational work done and ongoing?”
He said aside from the Navrongo and Bongo Constituencies where efforts have been made to improve the office spaces there and Pusiga where a new constituency office is being built, the rest of the constituencies used poky rooms as party offices.
This, for him, is unacceptable. He, thus, called on parliamentary aspirants and other leading members of the party to pull resources together and put up befitting party offices in those constituencies.
He also wants all the party constituencies’ offices to be fixed with modern technological gadgets so that their administrative activities could be digitised to safeguard them and preserve institutional memory as he said the current situation spells doom for the party’s future.
