Sammi Awuku reveals NPP sent him abroad to study political organisation

Long before Sammi Awuku became one of the NPP’s most recognizable organizational voices, the party was quietly investing in his political education, sending him across three continents to study how some of the world’s most enduring political machines are built and sustained.

The Akuapem North MP opened up about that journey on the Joy News AM Show on Wednesday, April 22, describing the exposure as foundational to how he thinks about grassroots mobilisation and party structure today.

“The NPP invested in me to go and learn from different political systems,” he said. “I am highly indebted to the party for those opportunities.”

His studies took him first to China, where he observed how the Communist Party of China organizes and maintains its vast grassroots base. “I learned a bit from how the Communist Party organizes its grassroots and mobilises support,” he said, an unlikely but instructive reference point for a politician from Ghana’s centre-right tradition.

From China, his political education extended to the United Kingdom, where the Conservative Party’s training structures and organisational frameworks offered a different but equally instructive model. He also engaged with the Christian Democratic Union in Germany, an experience he said broadened both his political networks and his understanding of how ideology and organisation intersect within a successful party.

Awuku said the cumulative lessons from those engagements have directly shaped his approach to party building. “I believe I’ve gained a fair understanding of party organisation, and I remain committed to giving back,” he said.

His remarks come at a moment when the NPP is actively reassessing its organizational strategy following the 2024 election loss, making Awuku’s internationally informed perspective on grassroots mobilization particularly relevant to the conversation the party is now having with itself.

Source: myjoyonline.com