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NPP Presidential aspirants urged
to unite behind elected candidate
Tamale, Nov. 5, Ghanadot/GNA- Nana
Akufo-Addo, a presidential aspirants of the New Patriotic
Party (NPP) has urged his colleagues contesting for the
flagbearership of the party to all rally behind the elected
candidate on December 22.
He said the NPP had a rich tradition of open democratic
transparency, which frowned on the imposition of leaders and
allowed everybody to contest for any position in the party.
Nana Akufo-Addo said this when he addressed a crowd of
supporters and delegates of the party in the Northern Region
in Tamale on Friday.
He said the important thing, after December 22 was for all
the defeated candidates to unite behind the elected leader
and give him all the necessary support to campaign to win
the 2008 general elections for the party to retain power.
He asked the presidential aspirants not to forget the lesson
of 1979 when the party leadership let petty squabbles to
destroy their front and thereby giving power on a silver
party to the less known Peoples National Party (PNP).
He also reminded them of rumours in 2004 to the effect that
he (Nana),
would break away and form a new party should he fail to be
elected as the party's presidential candidate.
"I was the first person when Kufuor was elected to mount the
dais to congratulate him and pledge my support to him", he
said and added that come December 22, "loosing candidates
must fall in line and work in unity with the elected
leader".
Talking about rumours and campaign smears against him to the
effect that
he was arrogant and disrespectful, Nana Akufo-Addo said: "
Of all that is said against me the only thing which is true
is that I hate injustice".
He explained that if this was what was termed as arrogance
then he was at a loss because those now citing that as
arrogance were the same people who some time back in the
history of this country when he risked his life to fight
injustice described him as brave and courageous.
Nana Akufo-Addo told the party delegates that the December
22 Congress was not about only electing the party's leader
but more importantly about electing someone with that
"elusive and intangible" quality called leadership.
He said that quality was not about one's performance in a
ministerial position, it was about managing the entity
called Ghana and this demanded someone with vision,
international exposure and the ability to inspire and carry
others along to achieve that vision.
He said the NPP also needed a leader like him who was a true
breed Danquah/Busia, a man of the party who knew its
traditions and had sacrificed, worked tirelessly and
invested to build upon.
GNA
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