PNC does not belong to Northerners only - Ntim

Barnerman Baah Ntim, People's National Convention (PNC), Presidential running mate in the 2000 elections on Tuesday called on Ghanaians to discard the notion that PNC was meant for Northerners and rally behind it to win the 2004 election.

Ntim told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that most people in the country have the erroneous impression that PNC was meant only for Northerners because the flagbearer in 1996 and 2000 elections, Dr Edward Mahama is a Northerner saying, "Everybody in the country is eligible to rule the country".

Ntim returned from the UK last week "to help build the party towards wining power in the 2004 elections." He said the PNC is the party that the electorates are crying for under the leadership of Dr Mahama to steer the affairs of this country to salvage the economy.

He said membership of the party includes people from all over the country and that "I am a Kwahu and a leading member of the party and so are some of the executives coming from different regions but rallying behind our dynamic leader Dr Mahama".

"Let me assure our massive supporters that the incoming national congress of the party would reveal that PNC does not only belong to Northerners but people with like minded who needed a better change of governance to turn the economy around " he stressed.

He called on all Ghanaians who have the same ideologies to rally behind the party to come out to form a more formidable alternative party to the NPP. He gave the assurance that the party is well equipped to compete and unseat NPP come 2004 adding that many people have joined the party from the international scene including Italy, USA, Germany and United Kingdom.