According to Nana Addo, he was aware of the pain and disappointment that the losers might be suffering after the primaries, assuring that there was still a role they could play to ensure that the NPP returned to government to save Ghanaians from the insensitive National Democratic Congress (NDC) government.
Nana Addo was speaking in Bolgatanga after a meeting with winners and defeated aspirants in the just-ended primaries.
He cautioned the elected parliamentary candidates and the defeated aspirants against any act that could create divisions and wrangling in the party at any level, especially as the party stood a brighter chance of winning the 2012 general election, following the failure of the NDC government to fulfil its campaign promises.
Nana Addo was accompanied by the National Chairman of the Party, Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey; the General Secretary, Kwadwo Owusu-Afriyie; Chairperson of the Conflict Resolution Committee of the party, Akosua Frema Osei Opare, and other top functionaries.
The team is expected to visit all the regions to meet party faithful, parliamentary candidates and the defeated aspirants, to address all issues that arose after the nationwide primaries which generated some surprises in some constituencies.
Though Nana Addo did not want to comment on the internal wrangling in the NDC in recent times, he said what was happening in the NDC was normal in politics and could be resolved depending on the way it was handled, hence no NPP functionary or sympathizer should see it as a reason to be complacent and stop working towards victory.
He pledged his commitment to the development and promotion of multi-party democracy and called on all political parties that would be contesting in the December 2012 general election to ensure that all processes that would lead to the elections were violent-free and transparent so as to produce credible results that would be acceptable to the majority of Ghanaians.
The Upper East Regional Organiser of the NPP, Yaw Mort, in an interview, was very hopeful that with the level of work and acceptance of the party in the various constituencies in the region, as well as people’s disappointment in the NDC government, Nana Addo stood a greater chance of winning in most of the polling stations, while majority of the parliamentary seats would be won by the New Patriotic Party.
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