Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the 2012 Presidential Candidate of the New
Patriotic Party, and Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, NPP National Chairman, will lead a
post-primary solidarity tour across the country, starting from tomorrow, May 5,
and ending on May 16.
Dubbed “All Hands on Deck” rallying tour, the exercise, which takes the national
leadership to all ten regions, will enable the leaders to meet the respective
regional and constituency executives together with elected parliamentary
candidates and losers to build solidarity among the rank and file works hard
towards achieving the party’s ultimate aim, which is victory in the 2012 general
elections.
Speaking exclusively to the New Statesman, Nana Addo said, with the primaries
out of the way, all was now set for the party’s 2012 campaign to begin.
We have now completed our internal reorganization by the peaceful and
transparent selection of our parliamentary candidates and can now turn our
attention fully to mounting a vigorous campaign that will bring victory for our
party next year and relief to the mass of our people in 2013 and beyond,” he
said.
He went on to congratulate “the party leadership at all levels, the aspirants,
delegates and the entire membership of our party for the mature, competent and
peaceful manner in which the whole exercise was successfully completed,”
describing it as yet another evidence that “the New Patriotic Party continues to
blaze the trail for Ghana's democracy.”
It will be recalled that in February, Nana Addo, Jake, General Secretary Kwadwo
Owusu Afriyie, Campaign Manager Boakye Agyarko and head of the party’s Conflict
Resolution Committee, Akosua Frema Opare-Osei, went on a similarly novel
pre-primaries national tour to encourage a peaceful and transparent primaries.
Out of the 220 constituencies where the primaries took place last weekend with
516 aspirants, only two ended up with aggrieved contestants presenting petitions
to the party headquarters, North Tongu and Okaikoi South.
Many analysts believe that exercise of proactive leadership engagement by Nana
Addo and his team contributed massively to the all-round success chalked by the
party in the weekend’s parliamentary primaries.
It is also expected that the post-primary tour will serve a similar purpose.
The itinerary of the “all-hands-on-deck” nationwide tour is as follows:
DATE REGION & ACTIVITY VENUE
Thursday, 5th May Central Breman-Asikuma
Friday, 6th May Ashanti Kumasi
Saturday, 7th May Brong Ahafo Sunyani
Sunday, 8th May Northern Tamale
Monday, 9th May Upper East Bolgatanga
Tuesday, 10th May Upper West Wa
Thursday, 12th May Eastern Koforidua
Friday, 13th May Western Tarkwa
Sunday, 15th May Volta Ho
Monday, 16th May Greater Accra Accra
