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Vice
President Aliu as running mate for Nana Addo?
Duori (U/W), July 23, Ghanadot/GNA– A Divisional Chief in
the Jirapa Traditional Area of the Upper West Region has
asked Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo, Presidential Candidate
of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to choose Vice-President
Alhaji Aliu Mahama as his running mate.
Naa S. D. Dombo II, Chief of Duori said the Vice-President
has handled himself well and performed creditably to the
admiration of all Ghanaians and should therefore be given
another chance.
“He has done remarkably well as Vice-President and worked
hard to improve the image of the party in Northern Ghana and
there is no need to nominate a fresh person to run with Nana
Addo”, he said.
He said this at a news conference at his palace in Duori in
the Jirapa District to bolster support for the
Vice-President.
Naa Dombo said Alhaji Aliu’s nomination would be acclaimed
by both the North and the South and all tribes in the North
see him as a unifying force.
The Chief who is the son of the Late S.D. Dombo, a political
giants of the United Party and Progress Party tradition,
said when Nana Addo became President, history would be made
in the country.
But he wants him to make world history by being the first
Presidential Candidate ever to choose a sitting Vice
President as running mate.
In a related development, the Nasara Youth Club of the NPP
in the Wa Municipality has urged Nana Addo to examine the
track records of all persons whose names were being
mentioned as his possible running mates.
They also called on Nana Addo to consider the Vice-President
as partner since his track record in government and
opposition was very impressive.
The Nasara Youth Club of Wa made the call at a news
conference at Wa on Wednesday, where they appealed to the
Vice-President to accept any proposal to partner the party’s
flagbearer for the elections.
“We think that if any of the other political parties had an
opportunity of using a sitting Vice-President, they would
have taken the advantage and the NPP should not make a
mistake”.
GNA
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