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NPP supporters urged to guard against violence
Koforidua, Sept 20, Ghanadot/GNA - Ms Shirley Ayorkor
Botchway, Deputy Minister for Trade, Industry and
Presidential Special Initiatives (PSI), has called on
supporters of the NPP to carry themselves in a manner that
would not brand the party as a violent one.
Addressing the All Nations University College and Koforidua
Polytechnic branches of Tertiary Education Students
Confederation (TESCON) and supporters of the NPP in
Koforidua on Thursday, Ms Botchway stressed that the NPP was
not a violent party, adding “and we will resist any tag of
violence put on us”.
She called on supporters of the party to disabuse their
minds that the December elections was “a do and die affair”
since the good works of President John Agyekum Kufuor would
convince the people to vote Nana Akuffo-Addo to continue
with the foundation laid.
The Deputy Minister remarked “we have contested elections
since 1992 through to 2000 when we came to power and even in
opposition in those times we did not fight nor use violence,
why would we then resort to violence today that we are in
power”.
Ms Botchway, who is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Weija,
is on the campaign tour of the wives of the NPP Flagbearer
and the running mate, Mrs Rebecca Akuffo-Addo and Mrs Samira
Bawumia respectively, in the Eastern region to canvass votes
for the NPP to retain power in the coming elections.
She charged the TESCON members to be real ambassadors of the
party by spreading the message of the good governance of the
NPP in the last eight years, to ensure that they retain
power in the coming elections, since that would determine
their future as students.
Mrs Bawumia told the students that the “nomination of my
husband as the running mate is a manifestation of the
Flagbearer’s trust in the youth” and called on them to
reason along that line and work hard for the NPP to retain
power for their own good.
She said the Flagbearer of the NPP and his running mate were
honest and hardworking people who had excelled in their
chosen fields and had the expertise to move Ghana to a
middle income status level based on the foundations laid.
Mr Hackman Owusu-Agyemang, a former Minister of State and
parliamentary candidate for New Juaben North, said the
polytechnic students should remember the infrastructure
provided for them by the NPP government and vote for the
party.
He urged them to work hard to win 80 percent of votes in the
region because Nana Akuffo-Addo came from the area.
A representative of TESCON, Ms Adwoa Enimil, appealed to
party members to support them to be able to do the work
expected of them and declared that despite the challenges
“we promise to work hard to ensure an 80 percent win for the
NPP in the region”.
She said TESCON members were convinced that when Nana
Akuffo-Addo was given the nod, he could deliver on his
promises considering the caliber of his running mate and the
hard work done by President Kufuor.
GNA
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