By
Dennis Perprah, GNA
Wenchi (B/R), Feb.
05, GNA – The “G boys”, an emerging political group of the New Patriotic Party
(NPP) has assured their unflinching support to help the NPP to snatch all orphan
parliamentary seats in Election 2020.
The group is also
poised to win the presidential polls in those constituencies in the Bono, Bono
East and Ahafo Regions.
As Election 2020
gathers momentum, the group therefore affirmed their readiness and commitment
to shoulder the responsibility to go round the constituencies in the regions,
propagate government social intervention programmes and sell the ideologies and
philosophies of the NPP to the electorate.
The ruling NPP has
nine orphan constituencies in the then Brong-Ahafo Region, out of which two
more regions were created.
There were 29
constituencies of which the NPP had 20, and nine for the opposition National
Democratic Congress (NDC).
The NDCc’s nine
comprise six in the Bono East – Kintampo North, Kintampo South, Sene West, Sene
East, Pru West and Pru East, and Asutifi South and Asunafo South in the Ahafo
Region and Banda in the Bono Region.
According to the
group, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s government achieved a lot, but
regretted that poor communication in selling those achievements to the
electorate, particularly those at the grassroots was the big challenge for the
ruling NPP.
In an interview with
the Ghana News Agency (GNA), Mr. Richard Kwadwo Adu, a former Wenchi
Constituency Youth Organiser of the NPP, and leader of the group said President
Akufo-Addo’s government had laid a solid foundation for national
reconstruction, which provided the NPP better campaign messages to sell to the
electorate.
“What we have to do
now as a political party is to strengthen our internal communication systems
and get the electorate abreast with government policies and programmes so as to
enable them to make informed decisions and enlightened choices in the general
election”, he said.
Mr. Adu, also a former
Assemblyman for Ntoase Electoral Area in the Wenchi Municipality observed from
indications the fortunes of the NPP in the Election 2020 looked brighter, but
it would take hard work for the Party to be retained in government.
“We must avoid
complacency and base our campaign messages on issues of expanding and
strengthening government flagship programmes such as; the free SHS, Planting
for Food and Jobs, One-village-one-Dam and the Planting for Export and Rural
Development”.
“I strongly believe
that if the concepts of these laudable programmes get down well with the
electorate, nobody will have to tell them to vote to maintain the NPP”.
Mr. Adu said the
implementation of the free SHS alone had restored the hopes of many Ghanaian
voters, hence the need for all NPP supporters to join and intensify the
electioneering so that the opposition NDC would not have any platform to
“peddle campaign of lies” to sway the attention of voters from government
successes.
In a related
development, Nana Adom Busia, a leading member of the NPP has taken a swipe at
those aspirants preparing to contest the NPP parliamentary primaries for the
slot to lead the Party in the Wenchi constituency.
He told the GNA the
seat “is not a wholesale”, but reserved for industrious citizens of the area,
who somehow contributed to the development of the Wenchi Municipality.
Nana Busia who is a
trained Journalist and businessman, therefore advised the NPP delegates to
check the background and track records of the various before taking the
decision to give any of them the nod to become parliamentary candidate.
As one of the
strongholds of the NPP, Nana Busia regretted Wenchi was still lagging behind in
development, because successive NPP governments had neglected the area.
He called on the
leadership of the NPP to ensure that all aspirants contesting the Party’s
parliamentary primaries nationwide were given equal playing fields, and advised
constituency executives to desist from rallying behind particular candidates.
This, he noted would
greatly jeopardise the prevailing peace in the Party, affect the campaign and
narrow the fortunes of the NPP in the Election 2020.
GNA