AKUFO-ADDO TO DISPEL WRONG NOTIONS (PAGE 13)

Story: Tim Dzamboe, Ho

THE presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has declared that the party will spend more time in the Volta region to seek understanding and reconciliation with the people to dispel wrong notions about it.
He said it was not true that the NPP did not like the Volta Region, and that it was malicious and wicked propaganda orchestrated against the party in order to sow a seed of conflict between the party and the people.
Nana Akufo-Addo said this when he addressed a rally at Kpedze in the Ho-West Constituency, beginning a tour of the region to introduce himself and some parliamentary candidates to the people.
He said hitherto, some of the strongest allies of the party were in the Volta Region, but unfortunately, the understanding had broken down because of the negative propaganda peddled against the party.
 He said for now, it was clear for the people to discern the truth from the false propaganda, adding that the prospects for the party were enormous and had generated a lot of confidence to demand from the people to renew the party’s mandate to build on the solid foundation laid by the Kufuor administration.
Nana Akufo-Addo said today, the freedom of expression and the freedom of the press were so liberal that many were free to talk without any apprehension.
 He said it was the determination of the NPP government to implement universal access to education for children, adding that there would be massive injection of capital into existing and new interventions to make the youth more resourceful.
He said the discovery of oil in commercial quantities had opened another glimmer of hope for the nation, and that a government led by him would handle well the funds that would be generated, to the benefit of the nation as a whole.
 One of the presidential aspirants, who lost at the last congress of the party, Mr Boakye Agyarko, said the next election was predicted to be a champion of champions between the NPP and the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
He said it was not about who could give 50Gp and a T-shirt to the people, but was fundamentally about who could guarantee the development of the people.
Mr Agyarko said there was progress coming to the Volta Region under the NPP administration, and so there was a glimmer of hope of guarantee for the future of the people, especially children.
He declared that Nana Akufo-Addo was the best candidate to be given the mandate to guarantee hope for the future, and that they should equally vote for the NPP Parliamentary Candidate, Mr Mawutor Goh, so as to form an approachable clique in governance.
“You must change with the changing times,” he said, explaining that they should be on the winning side.
The Volta Regional Minister, Mr Kofi Dzamesi, cautioned the people against the emergence of plausible liars and deceitful persons during the political season, explaining that they should not be rigid and conservative that even if they were offered gold, they would reject it.
 The Paramount chief of Kpedze, Togbe Astridom V, said the people were elated at the visit of the flag bearer to the area, and that they were ready to listen to all messages so as to digest them.
He said Ho-West Constituency had acknowledged some changes, adding that the past was not the same, saying it in Ewe, thus, “tsa le vo, tsatsa le vo”.
 He said the people were more mature and would make their choices according to their conscience.