Charles Bissue Laces Boot To Unseat John Boadu -As He Defies Heavy Rain To File Nomination Forms
An aspiring General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Charles Onuawonto Bissue, has defied a heavy pour on Thursday June, 15, 2022 to officially file his nomination forms which gives him the legal backing to contest the position of the NPP general Secretaryship.
Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu Greater 
An aspiring General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Charles Onuawonto Bissue, has defied a heavy pour on Thursday, June 15, 2022, to officially file his nomination forms which give him the legal backing to contest the position of the NPP General Secretaryship.
Mr. Bissue who is a staunch member of the NPP filed his nomination documents around 1:17 PM on Wednesday, June 15, 2022, after the leadership of the National Election Committee of the party had scrutinized the forms and certified his documents.
He has not gone through any hectic of filing his nomination papers to contest the NPP secretaryship race because he is in good standing as a member of the NPP who usually pays his dues regularly.
This development has clarified that Mr. Bissue is the best candidate for the NPP secretaryship position and that voting for him to win the slot would give the chance to the party to win both the presidential and parliamentary elections in 2024.
Addressing the journalists in the NPP headquarters in Accra after filling the papers, Mr. Bissue reiterated that the current national executives of the NPP have to be changed and select the new crops to steer the affairs of the party going into the 2024 general elections.
According to him, he believes that he is the man for the job and called on the delegates and members of the NPP to vote massively to win the race to unseat the incumbent General Secretary of the NPP, John Boadu.
The former Western Regional General Secretary of the party reasons his experiences garnered over the years has prepared him for the position at the national level, saying when elected the General Secretary, he would certainly perform well in transforming the structures and foundations of the NPP in national, regional and constituency levels.
“If I can deliver at the regional level then it means at the national level, I should be able to tell you which seats we will win and name them. Politics is now scientific, it is about strategy and not mere talk anymore,” told journalists.
He indicated that his agenda when given the opportunity to lead the party as the General Secretary is to solidify the structures within the party, as well as the credibility and fortunes of the party in general.
He emphasized that the dynamics going into the 2024 elections and future events are exclusively different from what the party and its leadership had experienced, adding that “the new season calls for new but great leadership.”
He noted that the NPP has accomplished great feats yet there is more to be undertaken to modernize it and make it more effective in dealing with its internal affairs as much as it aims at winning the votes of the Ghanaian electorate.
The General Secretary hopeful indicated that the change he wishes to affect in the party is anchored on inclusiveness and sustainable collaborations within the party and with the government.
"I am a member of the national council of the NPP and the reasons why l decided to clip up to the General Secretary position of the party has stemmed from the fact in 2024 we are going for elections, and that l believes that we have to break the eight years agenda of the NPP.
"We have to come up with innovative strategies with the new crop of leaders to win the 2024 general elections and l know that lam the best to be elected by the delegates and members of the NPP to bring the eight jinx.
"I am not saying that those who are in the current leadership positions have not performed to manage the party but l mean that l have vast experience to annex the General Secretary position of the NPP to lead the party to win the 2024 general elections," he added.
He said that everyone has contributed his or her quota to the development of the NPP.
"But l always said that each time or every time has its leader and he thinks "our NPP is a very efficient political party and l think its needs to be managed effectively this time round to break 8 years circle or jinx.'
He asserted that the NPP needs to be modernized and that "our forefathers left them with the great party and going forward we need to modernize to be abreast in the times, so this is one of the reasons that l am contesting for the position of the General Secretary of the NPP."
He stressed that 6000 delegates are going to vote based on their preferential choices and that the NPP is the democratic party that believes rule of law.
He indicated that he did not think that the statement reported having been made by the incumbent General Secretary of the NPP, Mr. John Boadu that nobody should contest him was a decision that the leadership of the party would accept.
For Mr. Bissue, he thinks that if Mr. John Boadu claimed that nobody should contest him and that he should go unopposed then he believes that he should not be any contest at all.
He indicated that it is time for all the members to complete so that the party benefits from the contest.
According to Mr. Bissue, he has chosen to answer this question because the journalist just asked: "me although he did not have any idea of what the incumbent General Secretary has said in that regard."
He pointed out that when the time comes like it is important "we all bring our ideas together to compete and at the end of the race the party and country that benefit."
The New Patriotic Party has set July 14 to July 16 to elect new National Officers for the party.
Other names contesting Mr. John Boadu for the General Secretary position are Charles Bissue, Mr. Iddrisu Musah Superior, Mr. Justine Kodua, and Frederick Opare-Ansah.
