NPP targets 55% of votes in Greater Accra
Mr Patrick Boamah, New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary nominee for Okaikoi Central, says the party has set its electoral machinery in motion to win 55 per cent of valid votes to be cast in the Greater Accra Region.
Mr Boamah described the Greater Accra Region as one of the critical regions for ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) but the NPP must do everything to win at least 55 per cent of the votes.
He said the party has adopted the door-door campaigns, among other things, adding: “We must visit people in their homes and work places. We must also help our vulnerable members,” he said in an interview with Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Accra.
Meanwhile Mr Kobina Ade-Coker, NDC Greater Accra Regional Chairman has refuted the NPP’s posture for the Region, asserting that the NDC has strengthened its electoral machinery in the area.
He told the GNA that the track record of President John Dramani Mahama and the developments across the Region would be rewarded with massive vote for both the President and NDC Parliamentary nominees.
He said the party had identified its operation shortfall during Elections 2012 that led to the loss of some strategic seats to the NPP and had adopted measures to win 80 per cent of seats in the Region.
“We have adopted a modern political party organisation strategy aimed at propelling the party to retain our seats and win back all other seats we lost marginally to our opponents,” Mr Ade-Coker told the GNA in an interview.
Mr Ade-Coker, who is also the Chairman of the NDC Regional Chairmen, has therefore charge functionaries of the Party to intensify the campaign towards marketing the party to retain power in Elections 2016.
“We must focus on propagating the achievements of the government whilst exposing our political opponent distractive agenda to the public,” Mr Ade-Coker said.
He said over the past four years, President Mahama and his government as well as NDC leadership has shown extreme tolerance.
“At the same time, our government has done its utmost to firmly and fairly maintain law and order under all manner of circumstances.”
He said under President Mahama the NDC is projecting a new culture of stable political institutions and friendly competition to guide a common National Agenda with the broad participation of all sectors of the society.
“An atmosphere of security and respect for the individual depends not on government alone, but on all of us. Therefore all must be made to respect this principle, and not use it for their own ends,” he noted.
Source: GNA