The Acting General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu, has stated that the party is considering moving the date of their upcoming National Delegates Conference.

The move according to him has been necessitated following a request brought before the party to postpone the date set for its National Delegates conference by the Muslim faithfuls in the party due to the clash in dates with the Eid celebration.

The NPP has scheduled May 15 to 17, 2018 as a date to hold its National Delegates Conference to elect national officers that will manage the party for the next four years.

The dates, have however, coincided with the Eid al-Fitr celebration which falls on Friday, May 15, 2018.

Mr. Boadu responding to the appeal on Accra-based local radio station, Okay FM, Wednesday, May 2, 2018, urged for calm since the leadership of the party will consider such request at its next Steering Committee meeting.

“We fixed our date to hold the National Delegates Conference December last year. We all know that this Eid al-Fitr and Eid ul Adha dates, one can never know the dates for these festive seasons a year before and so when we fixed our date, we didn’t know that it will coincide with the date for this year’s Eid al-Fitr. So, once the date has been fixed and announced publicly – in our party, we have so many people who are Muslims and with such an important occasion, we cannot hold our elections and so when it comes up for discussions, we will quickly push the date either forward or backward – possibly a bit forward. This is something which should not create chaos at all. If we had known that the date is definite, there is no way we could have fixed our date at 15 to 17”, he noted.