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NPP presidential ticket the safest platform for progress
- Kufuor
Kumasi, Sept. 10, Ghanadot/GNA – Introducing Nana Addo Danquah
Akufo-Addo, the man hoping to take over from him on January
7, 2009, to NPP supporters in the Oforikrom Constituency at
Ayigya, President Kufuor said Ghana could not afford to
allow the solid socio-economic foundation laid within the
last eight years to be destroyed.
The ruling New Patriotic Party’s (NPP)
presidential ticket for the 2008 poll is the nation’s safest
bet for continued progress and prosperity, President John
Agyekum Kufuor said in Kumasi on Wednesday.
He therefore called on the electorate to vote massively to
retain the party in power.
Nana Akufo-Addo is in Kumasi with his running mate, Dr
Mahamudu Bawumia, for an 11-day campaign tour of the Ashanti
Region.
He had earlier on arrival on Tuesday been introduced to the
party’s followers in the Bantama, Manhiya, Subin and Kwadaso
Constituencies by President Kufuor.
Security personnel had hectic time controlling the huge
crowd that lined the streets to give him a big welcome.
Clad in NPP “T”-shirts and other paraphernalia, they did the
kangaroo dance as his convoy snailed its way through.
President Kufuor, who said he was confident of Nana
Akufo-Addo’s victory in the election, asked voters to give
to the party between 90 and 95 per cent of the votes in the
Constituency.
Nana Akufo-Addo pledged to focus on wiping out illiteracy in
the country, if voted to lead the nation.
“We have to wipe out illiteracy here, if we are to move
forward,” he said, adding that they would provide equal
opportunity for all children, irrespective of social
background, to go to school.
He said the sterling performance of the Kufuor government in
the last eight years showed the NPP had better policies than
all the other political parties, citing among others, the
National Health Insurance Scheme, capitation grant, school
feeding programme and good roads.
The NPP candidate re-affirmed his party’s aversion to
politics of divide and rule and violence.
Mr Allan Kyerematen, a leading member of the party, said
with the expected drilling of the country’s oil and the
production of aluminium from Ghana’s own bauxite through the
re-launch of the Volta Aluminium Company (VALCO),
opportunity had been created for the opening of more job
avenues for the people.
GNA
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