While leading members and party executives of the NPP jostle for appointments to state agencies, others seem not to be particularly interested in serving in the government of President Akufo-Addo.
Several executives have already secured positions; Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, Ishmael Ashiettey; Kwaku Ansuma-Cheremeh; and Kwamena Duncan who are the ministers for the Greater Accra; Brong Ahafo and Central regions Regional Chairman; Regional Chairman and Regional Secretary respectively, are just but a few.
Others include Deputy Minister for Roads and Highways, Anthony Karbo, Deputy Minister of Information, Perry Okudzeto communication directors of the party, deputy minister of Regional Re-Organisation, Martin Adjei Mensah Korsah NPP’s Director of Elections, and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the State Transport Company (STC) Nana Akomea who is the NPP's Communications Director.
Conspicuously missing from the list though is leader of the youth wing of the New Patriotic Party, Sammy Awuku and acting general secretary John Boadu. These men worked assiduously and contributed immensely to get the NPP into power, but don’t seem interested in picking up an appointment into a state office.
Sammy Awuku explained the situation in an interview on Accra based CitiFm. He revealed that he with acting general secretary, John Boadu voluntarily agreed not to accept any appointment from the President, Nana Akuffo Addo, but rather hold the forth in the party as executives leave to join government.
 “After elections President Nana Addo invited me over to discuss my future in party and in government. All of us cannot migrate from the party into government, some of us must stay".
Sammy Awuku said he pleaded with the President for ample time to weigh some options before deciding exactly what he want to do.
 “I thanked him [Nana Addo] and asked him to give me a week or two to go do some extensive consultation on what to do for the government. I had an extensive consultation with senior members of the party including current general secretary John Boadu who had already indicated he wanted to stay and also Chairman Blayâ€
 “It was important I stayed, the business and pressure in government is huge, and we had just won an election. It wasn’t gifted to us by divine providence, we had to work for the vote, we had to organize and mobilize for the change. And it was important that the youth leadership and of the party should not be seen as abandoning the people after we had won.â€
Sammy Awuku believes the youth needed someone to help them secure some startups, scholarship and jobs and that was also a major reason why he refused to go into government.
The National Youth Organizer Sammy is hoping though to contest a higher position in the party at the party’s congress on August 25.
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