Bimbilla,
(N/R),
Nov. 24,
Ghanadot/GNA
- Nana
Addo
Dankwa
Akufo
Addo,
Presidential
Candidate
of the
New
Patriotic
Party (NPP)
has
reiterated
the need
for the
conduct
of free,
transparent,
peaceful
and
credible
elections.
He said
the
National
Democratic
Congress
(NDC)
having
failed
to use
lies and
other
intimidation
tactics
to get
people
on their
side,
were now
resorting
to
violence
to
ensure
that the
elections
did not
take
place.
He
therefore
called
on the
supporters
of the
party to
remain
calm and
unprovoked
in the
face of
insults
and
mudslinging
from
their
opponents.
Nana
Akufo
Addo was
addressing
a well
attended
rally of
party
faithful
in
Bimbilla
in the
Nanumba
North
District
at the
weekend.
He said
the NDC
was also
preaching
the
politics
of
tribalism
and
ethnicity
which
was not
good for
the
unity of
the
party,
adding
that,
Ghana
was made
up of
several
ethnic
groups
who
should
be
allowed
to live
in unity
in
diversity.
“We want
the
politics
of unity
and
reconciliation
not the
politics
of
disunity
and
tribalism.
He said
after 19
years of
PNDC/NDC
rule,
the
party
could
not
deliver
and
Ghanaians
should
not put
their
destiny
in the
hands of
incompetent,
inefficient
and
bankrupt
leaders
who had
nothing
more to
offer
them.
The NPP
flag
bearer
said he
would
bridge
the
development
gap
between
the
North
and the
South
with the
establishment
of the
Northern
Development
Fund,
which
would be
used to
among
others;
improve
upon the
road
network
in the
north,
expand
educational
infrastructure
with
special
emphasis
on
technical
education.
He said
the
airport
in
Tamale
would
also be
developed
into an
international
airport
city to
link the
north to
the
neighbouring
countries.
Nana
Akufo
Addo
said
agriculture
would
also be
modernised
not only
to make
it the
bread
basket
of
north,
but the
whole of
West
Africa,
adding
that,
marketing
companies
would
also be
established
for the
purchase
and sale
of soy
bean,
groundnuts
and shea
butter.
Mr Alan
Kyeremanten,
a
leading
member
of the
party
said 60
million
dollars
had been
approved
for the
establishment
of a
groundnut
processing
factory
for the
three
Northern
regions.
He said
the
factory
which
would be
sited at
Buipe in
the
Central
Gonja
District
would
need
about
50, 000
groundnut
farmers
to feed
it,
adding
that,
the
factory
would
thereby
provide
a lot of
employment
to the
youth of
the
three
regions.
GNA
