The leading aspirant for the national chairmanship position of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Hon Stephen Asamoah Boateng says the party has since its birth attracted a huge following because of the vibrancy of its youth wings.
Addressing party members as well as other participants at last Saturday’s Youth Forum by the NPP-UK branch in London, Hon Boateng said the youth have always driven the movement for change in Ghana and for the development of the country.
Hon Asamoah Boateng, a founding member of the NPP revealed that before the return of Ghana to constitutional rule in 1992, the UP tradition which metamorphosed into the NPP relied heavily on its youthful elements like himself, Dan Botwe, Michael Ansah, Kwaku Ampratwum Sarpong and, others to pile up pressure on the Rawlings-led PNDC to allow for multi-party democracy.
The former Information and Local Government Minister in the Kufuor administration stated that, ‘but for the efforts of the youth of Ghana especially those who worked for the NPP in the shape of TESCON and other youthful affiliates, the NPP would not have won the 2000 elections and subsequent ones’.
GhanaFeed.com