IN line with its Victory 2012 philosophy of running a \u201ctotal grassroots campaign\u201d, the New Patriotic Party will form a 20-member campaign team in each of the 21,000 odd existing polling station areas across the country.<\/p>\n
This translates into a nationwide official canvassing team of more than 420,000 volunteers. According to Boakye Kyeremanteng Agyarko, \u201cNo party in Ghana has the width and depth of structures that we have. So we intend to use the structures and personnel optimally and work hard and smart for victory in December 2012.\u201d<\/p>\n
Already, the party has five executives per polling station area, comprising of chairperson, secretary, organizer, women\u2019s organizer, and youth organizer. Fifteen others will be selected to join, complimenting the personnel of the existing structure.<\/p>\n
10 of them will be selected by the 2012 Presidential Candidate and five by the Parliamentary Candidate of each of the 230 constituencies. The message from the Campaign Manager to the candidates is simple, \u201cselect those who will do the job and not just those you like.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 2008 voter register pegged the number of registered voters at 13,278,941. Therefore, on an average each of the 21,032 recognised polling stations in Ghana has an average of 631 registered voters within its catchment area.<\/p>\n
This makes each member of the 20 polling station canvassing team responsible for approximately 32 registered voters, making it easier for the party to deliver its message directly and deploy resources efficiently. Boakye Agyarko, Nana Akufo-Addo\u2019s Campaign Manager, makes the point that the 2012 NPP campaign \u201cwill be scientific and intimate.\u201d<\/p>\n
In line with this, the New Statesman can exclusively reveal that in July 2011, Nana Addo will begin a nationwide tour, which is likely to keep him out of the capital for the best part of what is left of the year. \u201cNana Addo will travel to the towns and villages to meet the people and listen. He wants to do more listening this year and return to the people next year with his vision and programmes,\u201d says Boakye Agyarko.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wants to listen to their concerns, their fears, their hopes, their dreams. Next year, we hope to tell them how we plan to respond to what they told us during our interactions with them,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow, Nana Addo takes his \u201cAll Hands on deck\u201d exercise to the Eastern Region, followed by the Western Region Friday. The purpose of the tour has been three-fold, first to congratulate the party, generally, for managing the successful parliamentary primaries nationwide.<\/p>\n
Second, to foster unity among the party fellowship ahead of the 2012 exercise. Third, to announce to the party the campaign structure for 2012. The constituency and regional officers of the party will play the leadership role of supervisors and monitors of the grassroots campaign. The parliamentary candidate will serve as the chairman of the constituency campaign team, with the constituency Chairman as his vice.<\/p>\n
All constituency officers, chairperson of constituency council of elders and 5 others, to be selected by the flagbearer in consultation with the parliamentary candidate, will form the campaign team in the constituency.<\/p>\n
At the regional level, the regional campaign team will be chaired by the Regional Chairman, with the vice chairperson being selected by the Presidential Candidate. The Presidential Candidate will also nominate 5 persons to this campaign team.<\/p>\n
In addition to this, parliamentary candidates in the region will also nominate 3 members to the regional campaign team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read the original post: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
IN line with its Victory 2012 philosophy of running a \u201ctotal grassroots campaign\u201d, the New Patriotic Party will form a 20-member campaign team in each of the 21,000 odd existing polling station areas across the country. This translates into a nationwide official canvassing team of more than 420,000 volunteers. According to Boakye Kyeremanteng Agyarko, \u201cNo party in Ghana has the width and depth of structures that we have. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-421240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"\n
NPP To Recruit 400,000 Volunteers For Victory 2012 Campaign - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/11\/npp-to-recruit-400000-volunteers-for-victory-2012-campaign\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"NPP To Recruit 400,000 Volunteers For Victory 2012 Campaign - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"IN line with its Victory 2012 philosophy of running a \u201ctotal grassroots campaign\u201d, the New Patriotic Party will form a 20-member campaign team in each of the 21,000 odd existing polling station areas across the country. This translates into a nationwide official canvassing team of more than 420,000 volunteers. According to Boakye Kyeremanteng Agyarko, \u201cNo party in Ghana has the width and depth of structures that we have.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/11\/npp-to-recruit-400000-volunteers-for-victory-2012-campaign\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/11\/npp-to-recruit-400000-volunteers-for-victory-2012-campaign\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"NPP To Recruit 400,000 Volunteers For Victory 2012 Campaign\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-05-11T07:21:27+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/11\/npp-to-recruit-400000-volunteers-for-victory-2012-campaign\/\"},\"wordCount\":560,\"commentCount\":0,\"articleSection\":[\"Local News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/11\/npp-to-recruit-400000-volunteers-for-victory-2012-campaign\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/11\/npp-to-recruit-400000-volunteers-for-victory-2012-campaign\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/11\/npp-to-recruit-400000-volunteers-for-victory-2012-campaign\/\",\"name\":\"NPP To Recruit 400,000 Volunteers For Victory 2012 Campaign - Ghanamma.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-05-11T07:21:27+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/11\/npp-to-recruit-400000-volunteers-for-victory-2012-campaign\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/\",\"name\":\"Ghanamma.com\",\"description\":\"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"NPP To Recruit 400,000 Volunteers For Victory 2012 Campaign - Ghanamma.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/11\/npp-to-recruit-400000-volunteers-for-victory-2012-campaign\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"NPP To Recruit 400,000 Volunteers For Victory 2012 Campaign - Ghanamma.com","twitter_description":"IN line with its Victory 2012 philosophy of running a \u201ctotal grassroots campaign\u201d, the New Patriotic Party will form a 20-member campaign team in each of the 21,000 odd existing polling station areas across the country. This translates into a nationwide official canvassing team of more than 420,000 volunteers. According to Boakye Kyeremanteng Agyarko, \u201cNo party in Ghana has the width and depth of structures that we have.","twitter_creator":"@ghanamma","twitter_site":"@ghanamma","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/11\/npp-to-recruit-400000-volunteers-for-victory-2012-campaign\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/11\/npp-to-recruit-400000-volunteers-for-victory-2012-campaign\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"NPP To Recruit 400,000 Volunteers For Victory 2012 Campaign","datePublished":"2011-05-11T07:21:27+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/11\/npp-to-recruit-400000-volunteers-for-victory-2012-campaign\/"},"wordCount":560,"commentCount":0,"articleSection":["Local News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/11\/npp-to-recruit-400000-volunteers-for-victory-2012-campaign\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/11\/npp-to-recruit-400000-volunteers-for-victory-2012-campaign\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/11\/npp-to-recruit-400000-volunteers-for-victory-2012-campaign\/","name":"NPP To Recruit 400,000 Volunteers For Victory 2012 Campaign - Ghanamma.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website"},"datePublished":"2011-05-11T07:21:27+00:00","author":{"@id":""},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/11\/npp-to-recruit-400000-volunteers-for-victory-2012-campaign\/"]}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/","name":"Ghanamma.com","description":"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}