A flagbearer hopeful of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto has said his conviction to lead the NPP (NPP) in the 2024 general election is not motivated by the pride of his heritage in the UP tradition and hence, the sense of entitlement to lead the party in the current leadership race.
Instead, it has engendered his life-long commitment to work tirelessly to realise the vision of the Founding Fathers of the party.
He said as the son of Baffour Akoto, founder and leader of the National Liberation Movement (NLM), an offshoot of NPP, he belongs to a generation of party members who trace their roots right to the very birth of the United Party (UP) tradition but that does not bestow on him any sense of entitlement in the current NPP leadership race, rather, his zeal to realize the dream of the founders of the party is his biggest dream and motivation.
“I belong to the generation of party members who trace their roots right to the very birth of our tradition. But the pride of this heritage does not bestow on any of the entitlement in the current leadership race. Rather, it has engendered a real life-long commitment to work tirelessly to realize the vision of the founding fathers on whose shoulders our tradition and the spirit of the party stands”, he noted.
Dr. Akoto,, made this observation when he addressed a press conference in Accra on Thursday, September 14, 2023, over his preparedness for the NPP National Delegates Conference scheduled for November 4, 2024.
The Dream
The policy of the New Patriotic Party, in the words of one its Founding Fathers, Dr. Joseph Boakye Danquah aims to liberate the energies of the people of Ghana, with the right to life, freedom, and justice as the principles to which the government and laws of the land should be dedicated.
This is to specifically enrich the life, property, and liberty of each and every citizen.
Economic hardship
Motivated by the dream of the founding fathers of the UP tradition, the former two-term Member of Parliament for Kwadaso in the Ashanti Region assured of working tirelessly to ensure that he wins the mandate of the delegates of the party, and subsequently, as President of the Republic of Ghana, to turn around the fort