Obiri Boahen launches campaign today

Sunyani (Brong Ahafo) -- A leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Brong Ahafo Region, Nana Obiri Boahen, who is seeking election to become the regional chairman of the party, will officially launch his campaign at the Tata Restaurant, Sunyani, today.

Disclosing this in an interview in Sunyani on Thursday, Nana Boahen, who is a prominent Sunyani-based lawyer, debunked rumours circulating in certain quarters that he had withdrawn from the chairmanship race.

He stressed, “ I am in the race and I assure my numerous supporters that at no point in time have I nursed the slightest idea of withdrawing from the race”, adding, “ I will detail out my programmes and preparations on Tuesday”.

According to Nana Boahen, considering the overwhelming responses which he is enjoying from the supporters of the party, he has the maximum conviction that he will win the chairmanship race scheduled for November 28, this year.

On the question of how to get money to finance the party in the region, the prominent Sunyani-based legal practitioner said he enjoys the goodwill of a number of wealthy people in the region who have promised to assist him financially in his bid to sweep all the parliamentary seats in the region if he is made the regional chairman. Nana Boahen assured his numerous supporters that if he is elected as the regional chairman of the NPP, he would provide each constituency with a vehicle to enhance its political campaign.

He emphasised that he would also embark on an investment drive throughout the length and breadth of the world to bring foreigners to invest in the region as a measure of solving the unemployment problem facing the youth in the area.

“I am the only single individual who, in 2000, travelled to Holland and Germany at my own expense to campaign for the NPP”, Nana Boahen stressed.

He said while in Holland, he met the present Ashanti Regional Minister, Mr S. K. Boafo, and held a meeting with him and other leading members of the NPP in that country on the mobilisation of funds for the party’s electioneering campaign.

According to Nana Boahen, in 1995 when it was not easy to challenge the then government, he was able to organise the “Kume Preko” march in the region, stressing, “Now that the dust has settled, people are claiming to be political giants.”

“The number of legal cases I have handled for NPP members, supporters and sympathisers in the region can better be imagined than described,” Nana Boahen concluded.