“NDC Will Cut Through The Heart Of NPP’s ‘World Bank’ Like Hot Knife Through Butter”

In what can best be described as pure political taunts, John Jinapor, Spokesperson for the Vice President, John Dramani Mahama, has derisively communicated to the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) that the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) will cut through the heart beat and stronghold of the NPP, the Ashanti region, like a hot knife through margarine in the 2012 General Elections.

John Jinapor believes the warm and rousing welcome accorded President John Evans Atta Mills in the Ashanti region is an indication that the region is rooting for the ruling party and will thus vote massively for the NDC.

President Mills is on a three-day official visit to the Ashanti Region commissioning completed projects, inspecting on-going ones, as well as cutting the sod for new projects to begin.

Ashanti Region happens to be the ‘World Bank’ of the NPP, where the party draws most of its votes during elections. But according to reports, there was massive vehicular and human traffic in every nook and cranny of Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital as thousands of NDC supporters, well-wishers and by-standers, swamped every principal street in the city to catch a glimpse of President Mills.

John Jinapor revealed on Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana show that the entire Kumasi came to a standstill for about four hours when President Mills visited the region.

According to him, President Mills received the most amazing rousing welcome and expressed the hope that the almighty God would equip him with the needed strength to surmount the daunting challenges facing him and his government to enable him deliver on his campaign promise.

“Indeed yesterday, Kumasi came to a standstill, for close to 2hours and it was even difficult to buy pure water because of the level of support. There was virtually be no movement because of the level of enthusiasm, zeal, passion, support and the rousing welcome that Mills received,” he asserted.

According to him, the kind of support President Mills received at the backyard of the NPP was indeed remarkable as one could see passion and glee clearly written on the faces of the crowd who thronged the streets to see the President.

“President Mills went to the backyard of our opponent but clearly Kumasi came to a standstill. If you look at the faces of the crowd who welcomed the candidate, you could see passion and happiness written all over their faces. This clearly tells me that this year; we are holding Kumasi by storm and shaking the Ashanti region to the core, we are not only looking at our core support, the 23%, this year we are looking at cutting into the heart beat of Ashanti like hot knife cutting into butter. We want to ensure that we get deep into Ashanti region and take control in terms of the votes,” he stated.

He commended the people of the Ashanti for demonstrating that level of support for Mills, adding that “the NDC will deliver a resounding victory because it will be in the interest of Ghanaians to have Mills continue with the good work he is doing. Considering the transformation of the economy, nobody needs to tell you that you need to maintain Mills”.