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As the jostling for positions in the incoming New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration gains momentum, Constituency and some Regional Organisers of the party across the ten regions of the country, especially those in the Ashanti region appear united in their plea, that President-elect Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo, appoints the Ashanti regional Organiser, Stephen Amoah to a susbtantive Ministerial position.

The paper gather that last Saturday when the various Organizers of the part in the Ashanti region had their turn to congratulate President-elect Nana Akufo-Addo, chief amongst the issues they touched on, aside the congratulation and other plaudits was to plead with the man in whom the power to appoint people who would work in the next administration rest, to consider the Investment Consultant to a substantive ministerial position.

“Stephen Amoah has served the Party all his life. Aside serving the party his contemporaries, whom he started facing-off in debates on the economy like Haruna Iddrisu of the NDC have all been rewarded for their stewardship to the party. He also has the education that would make him deliver when he is appointed”, a man who only identified himself as Aidoo told this paper via telephone last Saturday.

Yaw Dadson, another one of the organisers who was present at the meeting said “Well, after the meeting I was telling them how this guy has suffered for the party. He has been a lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). He is almost done with his PHD so when it comes to academics I don’t think he has a match amongst his contemporaries in the party, besides that he has served the party so for me; if he get a ministerial position it’s in order”. 

Unlike others, Stephen Amoah, despite losing virtually every position he has contested in the Party has remained resolute and been on the side of the party on any given day. In the Ashanti region, our independent checks revealed that Stephen Amoah was one of the master brains that ensured that the party garnered as many votes at a time when the NDC was threatening to secure 1 million votes in the region.

Mr. Stephen Amoah served as a member of the Public Affairs Committee, National Campaign team for election 2008, who campaigned on the ground, in addition to his experience as Ashanti Regional TESCON President.

He effectively handled the office of Youth trainer as well as served as the resource person for training of NPP youth for community outreach activities in 2004.