In a press statement released on Wednesday,The group said Nana Obiri-Boahene, in their view and in the view of other party members, represents an embodiment of “NPP virtues and values.”
The statement further said “we strongly believe that he (Nana Obiri-Boahene) holds the key to an NPP victory in 2012. It is also time for the NPP to be reclaimed by its real adherents – those who truly believe in its virtues and values.”
Among the reasons enumerated by the group indicating why Nana Obiri-Boahene is the best candidate to partner Nana Addo for the 2012 elections were that as a legal practitioner Obiri-Boahene has worked hard “to defend many party activists across the entire country.”
Below is the Press Statement.
NANA AND NANA TICKET FOR 2012 ELECTION
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press,
It is our pleasure and privilege to welcome you to this Press Conference. The purpose of this Press Conference is to emphatically state our endorsement of Nana Obiri Boahen for the Vice Presidential position of the New Patriotic Party. Our support and endorsement of Nana is not only based on his incredible personal qualities and competencies, but also based on the immense support he has provided to our great party the NPP. In addition, whilst a lot has already been said about Nana’s youthfulness, dynamism, great communication skills, intellect and friendliness, little attention has been paid to Nana’s ideas, which will bring economic prosperity and revitalization to the country and especially to the North along with enhanced security for the citizenry.
Although our great party faces some serious challenges including sporadic redundancy of efforts, territoriality, clash of visions, and occasional alienation from the essential mission of our party, we have also seen great qualities inherent in our party for enhanced effectiveness and efficiency. We believe that Nana’ Obiri’s tremendous knowledge and skill, his collegial inclinations, community leverage, and excellent communication skills will serve the party well in the capacity of a Vice President.
Nana Obiri Boahen has demonstrated great affection and commitment to our party and the country, and we would like to respectfully offer his name for consideration, because we strongly believe that “Nana and Nana ticket” will not only energize the base, but also resonate with the grass roots.
As one of the leading legal practitioners in the country, Nana Obiri has worked tirelessly to defend many party activists across the country and strongly defended human rights in the country. For example, Nana Obiri has been defending NPP activist in custody in Tamale. In addition, Nana is widely known across the country for his great communication skills, which has enabled him to explain, defend and communicate the party’s agenda to different constituencies in the country. From a humble beginning, Nana’s trademark as a hard working, dedicated, down to earth, articulate and intellectually stimulating individual has enabled him to serve the party in many capacities.
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press, as many of you know, although the NDC government is in power at the time when the rich endowment in human and natural resources of our country are bearing fruits, our people are still grappling with economic survival, human rights violation, corruption, intimidation, lawlessness and political insults. It is an undeniable fact that proverbial ‘Yutong bus’ driver is not delivering as suggesting by his own party men/women, we therefore need a competent ‘Yutong Bus’ driver and a mate. Kumasi, Sunyani, Atebubu, Yendi, Wa and very soon, he would be going to Bolga, in fact all over the country. As for the other numerous cases that he had conducted for the party, we cannot detail them at all.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we believe that our country is at crossroads and such, the 2012 elections will be based on ideas and the ability to connect the masses. As a result, we need to put our national interest above all and select Nana Obiri Boahen who has a proven record of dedication to human rights issues, experience in government, dynamism and immense grasp of the issues in our country.
We need dedicated, competent, dynamic, hard working and effective communicator who can reach across the political divide to unite our country and move forward the developmental agenda of our party. We believe that Nana Obiri is the right man to pair Nana Addo.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we again believe that selection of Nana Obiri will create conditions to help to foster cohesiveness, generate grass root excitement, and attract voters. We again believe that selection of Nana Obiri as the vice presidential candidate will catalyze a comprehensive realignment of electoral capital to our party’s fundamental objective of winning the 2012 elections.
Nana is the first regional Youth Organiser of NPP in the early 90’s, the 1st Youth Organiser of the Danquah Busia club which ripened into NPP. Nana is a former Brong Ahafo Regional Chairman of the party, former President of Brong Ahafo Bar Association, Former Secretary to the National Disciplinary Committee of the party and served his country as a Minister of state for interior during President Kuffour’s last term in office. Nana’s personal appeal stretches from the Brong Ahafo to many parts of the country and crosses ethnic, social and economic divide. Nana is young, intelligent and well prepared to help the party capture political power once again to bring the development and freedom that Ghanaians so desperately need. A greater number of our member off Parliament both present and former would attest to the leadership qualities of Nana Obiri Boahen.
The group will like to state for a fact that, Nana Obiri Boahen personal appeal stretches from the Brong Ahafo to many parts of the country and cut across ethnic, social, and economic divide. Nana Obiri-Boahen is young and energetic, married, intelligent and well prepared to help our great NPP party capture political power from the NDC come 2012 to bring the development and freedom that Ghanaians so desperately need.It is clear from our brief description of Nana Obiri’s accomplishments, commitment to our great party and support for the grass roots that he is not only the right person for the vice presidential slot, but also a team player and will complement Nana Addo to ensure delivery of our electoral promises to Ghanaians. We are hopeful that you will accept this proposal and select Nana Obiri as the next Vice President of the Republic of Ghana
Lastly, Nana Obiri is commitment to the full implementation of the Savannah Accelerated Development program (SADA) to mitigate the North-South economic disparity. The following are some of the ideas Nana Obiri Boahen has proposed to support our Presidential candidate Nana Akuffo Addo to bring the socio-economic development of the North:
· Availability of low interest revolving loan for cooperative groups to establish small scale industries to create employment and improve economic opportunities in the north
· Directed allocation of resources to build schools, IT learning centres, and scholarships to assist the less fortunate members of our society to access quality education. This will stimulate skills acquisition leading to self employment to mitigate the north-south migration
· Support public infrastructure for clean water and sanitation
· Establishment of Sustainable Energy Development Agency to focus on generation of Solar and Wind farms in the north to create employment and spur industrialization
· Community Peacekeeping Initiative to enhance conflict resolution and good governance practices. Continued…
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