According to him, the overwhelming response accorded the campaign team of President Mills wherever they visited across the country indicated that “ the congress at Sunyani would be a mere formality since President Mills will chalk up a resounding victory,”
Mr Owusu-Acheampong, who said this in an interview in Accra, said the assurances by the delegates and other well-wishers of President Mills in the various constituencies had reinforced the belief of the campaign team that President Mills’s victory at the congress would be a landslide.
He said delegates were very enthused about the level of maturity exhibited by President Mills in the face of wanton criticisms by leading personalities, especially those in the party.
According to him, delegates have been very happy about the interventions instituted by President Mills to shore up the economy and improve the lives of people.
“The campaign team is very happy about the positive perception the delegates have about President Mills and the desire expressed by them to retain him as the presidential candidate of the party for the 2012 elections,” he said.
He explained that the castigation that President Mills had suffered at the hands of his opponents had won him even greater sympathy among the vast majority of the delegates.
Mr Owusu-Acheampong , who is a Member of the Council of State, said the message of the campaign team had bordered on the humble, modest nature of President Mills and his achievements during his two-and-half years of managing the economy.
“President Mills has always allowed his political maturity to prevail in the face of provocation by functionaries within the party and this has endeared him to the broad masses of the delegates,” he said.
The Member of the Council of State said President Mills’s victory at the forthcoming congress was a foregone conclusion since he stood another chance of defeating the New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
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