Elmina (C/R), July 7, GNA- Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom, Flagbearer of the Convention People's Party (CPP) at the weekend said that the people of the Central Region deserved better than they have experienced so far. "The people of this region would be better off under a CPP administration led by me", he said at a durbar held to end the annual Bakatue festival of the Chiefs and people of the Edina Traditional area. "Therefore all sons and daughters of the region wherever they may be should join the national "Yeresesamu" or the Campaign for "Change You Can Feel in Your Pocket" that has caught fire throughout the country". Dr Nduom, who was on the region's campaign trail, thanked the people for supporting him to become their Member of Parliament and recounted some of the benefits through his lobbying they had gained under his tenure including electricity, roads, education, fishing and job creation projects.
He asked the people to entrust their hopes with people who had proven in their private and public lives to have the welfare of the nation at heart.
The CPP flagbearer was accompanied to the durbar by hundreds of CPP supporters and leading members, including the First Vice Chairman of the Party, Dr. Abu Sakara, the Treasurer, Mr. Mike Eghan, the Chairman of the Greater Accra Region, Mrs. Susan Adu-Amankwah and the Parliamentary Candidate for the KEEA Constituency, Mr. Joachim B. Eshun. Later at a town hall meeting in Kissi near Komenda, where he met the people of the area, who are predominantly farmers, Dr Nduom, after listening to the concerns and needs of that community and deliberating with them on the way forward, thanked them for the support they gave him when he was the MP for the area.
He introduced Mr. J. B Eshun as the person to succeed him as MP and asked the people to lend him the needed support. Dr Nduom asked for their support "so that one of your own, who is also the best candidate in the race could become the President of this country".
He asked them to remember what the CPP under President Nkrumah did for them by putting a sugar factory in Komenda which benefited thousands of people and promised that as "Edwumawura", he and the CPP, "will bring back jobs lost over the years so that hope can come back to this area".
Dr Nduom answered questions on electricity particularly the need for meters for old and new houses, the cocoa high tech project and his participation in the Kufuor administration.
As the one who introduced the cocoa high tech project in the area, Dr. Nduom explained that the project which was initiated in 2004 is to benefit everyone who signed up for it originally and is not meant for partisan political purpose.
He assured the people that the CPP had caught on very well all over Ghana and will win the elections this year Dr Nduom asked them to consider the crises in their pockets and vote for change and bring the CPP back to power because "the people deserve better".
He said the Central Region had educated many Ghanaians and its people had served Ghana very well in the public sector, and thus deserved to send its son to the highest office of the land particularly one who had prepared himself well for the Presidency like himself. He later met with the executives and Parliamentary Candidates for the Cape Coast and KEEA constituencies to strategise on how the CPP could win the majority of Parliamentary seats and Presidential votes in the Central Region this year.
Dr. Nduom also went to Komenda to mourn with the people and family of the late Nana Yaw Ankomah II also known as Frank Ekow Eshun who became the Member of Parliament for the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem constituency after the 1979 elections.
