Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, a South Dayi Member of Parliament, has urged the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to conduct its national executive elections peacefully next month.
He stated that the NPP should follow in the footsteps of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), which he believes has moved away from violence.
Mr Dafeamekpor said this in response to a statement by the NPP's Deputy Communications Officer, Abdulai Kamal Deen, that an aspiring National Chairman of the party, Mr Stephen Ayesu Ntim, will undoubtedly win the position of National Chairman of the governing party in order to help the party break the country's eight-year electoral cycle.
"I can promise you," Kamal-Deen stated on TV3's New Day broadcast with Johnnie Hughes on Monday, June 20. Stephen Ntim will be the National Chairman for the fifth time; this will be his fifth try at the position. He's been into it for the better part of his adult life, working hard, staying healthy, and demonstrating that patience pays off.
"[Ntim] is saying, 'Give me a flagbearer, and I'll give you a president in 2024,' plain and simple."
"It is not only about a flagbearer, what type of a flagbearer, that is where their concentration should be," Mr Dafeamekpor said.
"In any case, I wish them well in their next national elections." They did the polling station, where there was a lot of violence, and they did the constituency, where there was a lot of violence.
There was a lot more violence, and the regional one was considerably worse.
"We don't want them to go to the Accra Sports Stadium and repeat what we witnessed at the polling stations, constituency and regional level elections; it should be peaceful; the violence in our public elections is getting too much, especially from their side; we, the NDC, have moved on long ago."