2016 polls: NPP will win “come hell or high water” – Akufo-Addo

An aspiring presidential candidate of Ghana’s main opposition party has said his party must win the 2016 general elections “come hell or high water.”

Nana Akufo-Addo told party Delegates in the country’s Upper East Regional capital, Wa, on Friday that victory must not slip through their fingers in 2016 as it did in 2012.

The former Attorney General and Minister of Justice is aiming to lead the New Patriotic Party, for the third consecutive time, as its presidential candidate in the next elections, after his two unsuccessful bids in 2008 and 2012.

But he must first beat six others contesting him for the flagbearer slot.

They include two former trade Ministers Alan Kyeremanten and Dr Kofi Konadu Apraku; MPs Francis Addai Nimoh and Osei Ameyaw; as well as former Attorney General and Minister of Justice Joe Ghartey; and former information Minister Stephen Asamoah Boateng.

Akufo-Addo, who has suspended his campaign to monitor the country’s Electoral Commission’s 10-day limited voter registration exercise, told Delegates in Wa that he had come to them to ask for a third chance, promising that he will lead the party to victory this time round if given the opportunity.