NPP Unveils Six-Month Grassroots-Driven Roadmap for Crucial Internal Elections
From polling station contests in April to decisive national executive polls in September, the party charts an extensive bottom-up process to reshape its leadership structure.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) is setting the stage for a prolonged and highly structured internal contest that party leaders say will test the strength of its grassroots machinery ahead of the next political cycle.
At a press briefing at the party’s headquarters on Wednesday, February 18, General Secretary Justin Kodua Frimpong outlined a detailed six-month timetable that will see the party elect officers from the lowest tier to its highest decision-making body.
Rather than a single national event, the exercise has been designed as a staggered process beginning at the polling station level — a move party officials describe as reinforcing its long-held bottom-up philosophy.
Nominations for polling station positions will open on April 20, 2026, with elections at that level scheduled for May 10 to May 16. The process will then advance to electoral area executive committee elections from June 10 to June 15.
Constituency officers will be elected between July 11 and July 12, followed by chapter and external branch elections. Activities related to chapter polls — including nominations, vetting, appeals, elections, data entry, and album validation — are slated to run from June 20 to July 19.
The internal electoral marathon will culminate in what party officials describe as the “mother of all elections” — the national executive elections — set for September 18 to September 20, 2026.
By stretching the exercise across half a year, the NPP leadership appears to be prioritizing broad participation and administrative thoroughness, signaling an effort to consolidate its structures from the grassroots upward before selecting its top national officers.
