The National Youth Authority (NYA) has congratulated youth aspirants in the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) for contesting the party’s last Saturday’s parliamentary primaries.
“The National Youth Authority wishes to congratulate all youth candidates who stood for elections in the just ended NPP Primaries,” says the NYA in a press statement released and signed by its Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Ras Mubarak on Monday in Accra.
“It is reassuring to note that a growing number of youth in Ghana are offering themselves up for leadership within the political structures of power,” according to NYA.
It said “The endorsement of youth-aspirants in the NPP primaries inspires hope that Ghanaians are asserting a claim to newer, more vibrant and innovative approaches to solving the developmental challenges which threaten to undermine our collective aspirations, and stifle our forward stride.”
The statement noted that the youth have shown by this overwhelming gesture that where they may be lacking in experience, they more than make-up for in energy and creativity.
It described the elections of the youth in the NPP as a positive development for the country’s democracy, saying “it is an important step towards dismantling age old barriers and glass-ceilings which have constrained the upward mobility of the nation’s largest political demography – the youth.”
The last Saturday’s parliamentary primaries of the largest opposition party saw 22-year-old second year law student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Francisca Oteng-Mensah, elected as the party’s parliamentary candidate for Kwabre East whilst 26 year-old Mavis Nkansah Boadu was also elected NPP parliamentary candidate for Afigya Sekyere East.
If they are elected into parliament in 2016, they will be two of Ghana’s youngest lawmakers ever.
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