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President Kufuor calls for united
support for NPP flagbearer for 2008 polls
Asamankese (E/R), Oct. 7, Ghanadot/GNA - President John
Agyekum Kufuor has called on members and supporters of the
ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) to unite solidly behind
whoever was chosen at the December 22, national delegates
congress to lead the party to the 2008 polls.
He said anyone of the Presidential Candidates selected would
be for the party and would therefore need the total loyalty
and support of all for a resounding victory.
Addressing a rally organized at Asamankese, the capital of
the West Akyem District, by the Eastern Region branch of the
NPP, President Kufuor asked the party's loyalists to see
themselves as belonging to one big family and as such must
uphold its unity and continue to show love to one another.
Almost all the presidential aspirants of the party attended.
He told the enthusiastic crowd, who defied heavy rains to
listen to him that Ghana, the black star of Africa, was
rising and that there were a lot of good things coming its
way, mentioning among other things the recent discovery of
oilfields off the shore of Cape Three Points.
President Kufuor said already many goods things had happened
to the country within the last seven years and the future
looked bright and full of hope.
Earlier, ecstatic supporters, of the various presidential
aspirants, mostly young men and women, adorned in "T" Shirts
embossed with their pictures had turned the main street of
the town into a theatre of lively political carnival.
While some danced to brass band music, others beat drums,
blew whistles, sang and chanted slogans extolling the
virtues of their idol candidates.
They had come in buses from across the country.
The NPP goes to congress to elect its flagbearer from a
crowded field of about 20 contestants on December 22.
GNA
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