Boakye Kyeremanteng Agyarko believes that no political party wins an election without its grassroots—and he’s not backing down from that philosophy.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential hopeful has thrown his weight behind a bottom-up political structure, insisting that the strength of polling station executives must come before the selection of a flagbearer.
“First and foremost, we sell the party to the people before the flagbearer even comes in,” Agyarko stated in a fiery interview on Sompa FM.
“There is no way one person can win an election for any political party. That is why we begin from the polling stations.”
With over 88,000 human settlements in Ghana, Agyarko says deploying a single candidate to campaign effectively is unrealistic.
But 210,000 well-positioned party executives? That’s a winning formula.
He argues that if two committed polling station officers are assigned to each community, the party can campaign nationwide in record time.
This defence of grassroots structures comes as a critique of the NPP’s current leadership, which has opted to elect a flagbearer before renewing national and regional executives. Agyarko finds this approach baffling.
“What has caused them to change the bottom-top approach to top-bottom?” he asked.
“Who builds a house starting from the roof before constructing the foundation?”
He didn’t mince words in his disapproval:
“It’s either some people don’t understand the politics or are just being selfish and greedy.
“Why will you elect a flagbearer before national and regional executives? It is total nonsense!”
