Former New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer hopeful Boakye Kyeremateng Agyarko
Former New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer hopeful, Boakye Kyeremateng Agyarko, has stated that the party needs urgent rebranding.
According to Boakye Agyarko, who was Minister of Energy during President Akufo-Addo’s first term, the NPP has lost its core tenets and is moving in the wrong direction.
The former minister, who made these remarks in a statement sighted by GhanaWeb, added that the rebranding is necessary for the NPP to return to its glory days.
“The urgent call for the NPP to be rebranded is a tacit admission that we have deviated from our core values, mores, beliefs, and values, and have lost our sense of direction and identity thereby. The manifestations of this loss are what is driving this call for reforms and rebranding. The desire to rebrand is a tacit recognition that our current brand is tarnished, and we are unhappy with the current state of affairs.
“When we bleach the banners of the ideological brilliance of our party, fewer people will desire to march under its colours. The New Patriotic Party (NPP) is our heritage, our inheritance, and the faith of our fathers born out of years of desperate struggles and culminating into the United Party tradition,” he wrote.
The former flagbearer hopeful reiterated that it is essential for the party to return to its core values.
He said that without these values, the party would be engaging in fruitless exercises.
“Our values are fundamental truths. They are central to who we are. They point us in the right direction. We must ensure they remain our compass through changing times (John Hannaford).
“We do not intend to merely sigh from the past. That would be reactionary. We should use these teachings and lessons of our past to more intensely celebrate the present and reshape the future. Our objectives to rebrand and reposition the NPP are to restore the values, teachings, practices, traditions, and mores of liberal democracy, the essence of which is to impart them to the youth of Ghana in particular, and the rest of the body politic in general,” he added.
Agyarko then went on to list some of the core values and beliefs that, according to him, are no longer practised by the party as follows:
– The respect for and defence of the rule of law.
– To build in Ghana, a free and democratic system of government under which all citizens will be able to contribute to the welfare, peace, and prosperity of our nation and keep its people free from dictatorship and oppression.
– The protection and preservation of fundamental rights and freedom of the individual. Every individual deserves respect and must have their dignity protected.
– The right of individual property is secured and inviolable. Thomas Paine in the “Rights of Man” asserts that, “the rights of property being secure and inviolable, no one ought to be deprived of it except in cases of evident public necessity, legally ascertained and on condition of a previous just indemnity.”
– The devolution of power away from the central government to local levels where policies are implemented.
– The promotion of an efficient market economy and individual enterprise and creativity, while ensuring that there are adequate safety nets to protect the poor and the vulnerable.
– The promotion of sound institutions to uphold and sustain democratic governance.
– The granting of a place of pride and active role for our moral-cultural institutions such as religious organisations, the institution of chieftaincy and civil society organisations.
– The legitimate role of the democratic state in the just distribution of production resources of the nation so as to prevent them from being monopolised in the hands of a few or a particular area of Ghana. This is the means by which we secure the material conditions of equal citizenship. This distribution must lead to policies that give unfettered access and opportunities to equal education, healthcare, and employment.
– To create a climate in which private enterprise (citizens and foreigners) may invest without fear and unnecessary bureaucratic restrictions and impediments, in order to create wealth and prosperity for its people. This is the best way to help people earn an income, achieve success, and take care of their families.
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