"NDC Will Recapture Seats In Central Region"

The Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr Ato Quarshie, has said the party will fight hard to recapture the seats it lost to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the next parliamentary elections.

“The regional executive, in concert with its constituency colleagues, is poised to explore every possibility to ensure that the NDC wins back the seats in the hands of the NPP in Central Region where the flagbearer of the party hails from,” he said.

Dr Quarshie, who said this in an interview in Accra, pointed out that the general economic decline has considerably affected the broad masses of the people who are yearning for the return of the NDC to political power .

“The daily lamentations of the vast majority of the people for the return to power of the NDC have reached the leadership of the party which has also resolved to put its act in order to ensure a massive victory in the 2004 presidential and parliamentary elections," he said.

According to Dr Quarshie, the regional branch of the party has drawn an elaborate programme to strengthen its polling station agents to prevent impersonation at the next polls.

In addition, he said, the party has also taken concrete actions to ensure that it maintains existing supporters and encourages those who, owing to circumstances, strayed to other political parties, to come back and help the NDC to wrest power from the NPP at the next polls.

Reacting to the defeat of the party in the recent by-election in the Gomoa East constituency, the regional chairman pointed out that the defeat was due to a number of factors which have been addressed by the regional leadership of the party.

“ Mark my words, the NDC will sweep aside all its political opponents to win existing seats and also wrest those it lost to the NPP in the 2000 parliamentary elections,” Dr Quarshie said.

He said the party has been encouraged by the massive reception it receives on its tours in the region, adding that “the NDC now has considerable goodwill among the people”.

Dr Quarshie called on the rank and file members to rally behind their constituency executive in their bid to ensure that the NDC chalks a landslide victory at the next polls.