The New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) legal directorate is being deployed nationwide to oversee internal election appeals and resolve disputes at the constituency and regional levels, party officials said.
Gary Nimako Marfo, head of the NPP legal directorate, speaking on the Asaase Breakfast Show said that the initiative aims to address grievances locally, reducing the need for disputes to escalate to the party’s national headquarters in Accra.
He added that the party has compiled a nationwide list of lawyers to sit on appeals committees, which he said will “lessen the upheavals and people will be happy that all such petitions would be resolved.”
“The legal directorate is in the entire country. Now with our polling station, electoral area, constituency and regional elections, the legal directorate is going to sit on appeals across the whole country to make sure we resolve all disputes so that it doesn’t have to come to Accra,” Nimarko Marfo said.
Voter eligibility
“People were using unorthodox means to remove people’s names from the album. And what NEC did was that all those who were taken out of the album have the opportunity to return. In case you lose elections, your name will still be in the album, and you will still vote in the next election,” he said, referring to the NPP’s central membership register.
He said the reforms, alongside the ongoing membership drive, will create a “clean register” ahead of polling station elections, ensuring transparency and fairness.
Through coordination with the General Secretary and the National Executive Committee (NEC), Nimako Marfo said all outstanding issues have been resolved, paving the way for smoother internal elections nationwide.
“The system put in place by the General Secretary is shaping the party. As we go into the polling station elections, this is going to top up the baseline and this is going to be a clean register,” he added.
Bottom-up approach
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) will retain a bottom-up approach in conducting its internal elections, with the process running for six months from grassroots contests to the election of national executives.
Addressing a press briefing at the party’s headquarters in Accra, Justin Kodua Frimpong said the exercise will begin on 20 April, with nominations opening for polling station positions, and will end with national executive elections from 18 September.
“The elections of our polling station executives will be held from May 10 to May 16, 2026. When we are done with the polling station elections, we will move straight to the electoral area executive committee elections, which will take place from June 10 to June 15, 2026,” he said.
“The election of constituency officers will be held from July 11 to July 12, 2026. After that, we will move on to the chapter and external branch elections,” Kodua Frimpong added.
“For the chapter elections, the opening and closing of nominations, vetting, appeals, elections, data entry, and validation of the album are expected to take place within the period of June 20 to July 19, 2026,” he said.
“After that, we will move to the mother of all elections — the national elections — which shall be held between September 18 and September 20, 2026.”
Source: asaaseradio.com
