Let's intensify house-to-house campaign - Odeneho

Adubinso, (Ash), June 28, GNA - The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Chairman for Kwabre West Constituency, Odeneho Kwaku Appiah, has urged the members and sympathizers of the party to intensify their house-to-house campaign to enhance its appeal to voters.

There should be no time to waste, he said, at a meeting with polling station executives and supporters of the party, at Adubinsu, near Aduman, at the weekend.

He said: "The worsening economic situation of majority of Ghanaians due to the poor management of the economy and failing policies of the Mills Administration is an electoral opportunity, which we must not allow to slip by.

"The country now lacks focus and direction and it is pertinent we help the people to appreciate the enormity of the mess the nation now finds itself in to enable them to avoid making a mistake in 2012." Odeneho Appiah mocked the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) drumbeat, "Better Ghana Agenda," asking: "Could anybody sincerely tell us if 18 months into the Mills Administration, Ghanaians are now better off than they were under the Kufuor's Government?"

He told the party members to trumpet the achievements of the eight years of the NPP rule to expose what, he said, were the lies and cheap propaganda, the NDC employed to win power in the 2008 elections. He called for a united front and counselled against acts of distraction that were unhelpful to the cause of the party. The current intense struggle for flag-bearer position in the party should not create any anxiety because things would smoothen out after the August 7, National Congress, he stated.

Odeneho Appiah said whoever is elected by the delegates to lead the party to the 2012 Polls would be fully supported by the constituency. Ms Beatrice Owusu, the Constituency Women's Organizer, said women are the worst hit by the bad economic policies of the government. She said the near collapse of all the social interventions such as the National Health Insurance, Free Maternal Care, Youth Employment, the School Feeding, among others, posed a threat to the well-being and development of Ghanaian women.

Ms Owusu advised the women to sit up and assume leading roles in the campaign to bring NPP back to power to restore these interventions for their benefit.