President calls for hard work to ensure massive victory next year

Cape Coast, Dec.21, GNA - President John Agyekum Kufuor, on Sunday urged members and supporters of the NPP to work hard to ensure massive victory in next year's elections.

" Let's make sure we're going to fill the ballot boxes with votes for the NPP," he declared.


President Kufuor made the call at the closing session of the three-day annual national delegates conference of the party at the auditorium of the University of Cape Coast (UCC).


He observed that the conference could not have been held at a better time and said the atmosphere, which prevailed at the conference indicated that members and supporters of the party were "ready to fight to win next year elections".


President Kufour urged them not to let Ghanaians down and to work hard to ensure that the people would have no choice but to retain the party in power.


"We have a job to do. We must win for Ghanaians. NPP should win for Ghana", he said.

National Chairman of the NPP, Mr Haruna Esseku, noted that the deliberations at the conference were a clear indication that it had been able to achieve all that it set out to do.


He charged members of the NPP to ensure that the party wins not less than 150 parliamentary seats in the elections.

NPP calls discipline in the party

Cape Coast, Dec 21, GNA - Delegates attending the just-ended national annual conference of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Sunday called for the enforcement of discipline at all levels of the party. They stressed the need to ensure that disciplinary structures within the party are made to function.


The delegates, made the call in a five-point communiqu=E9 adopted at the end of the conference held at the University of Cape Coast (UCC).


The communiqu=E9 called for the strengthening of polling station structures of the party and agreed that the party's constitutional provision, which states that only polling station chairmen should vote in the primaries must be allowed to stand.

It called for cooperation between party and government officials since it is only through this that the people could recognise both the achievements of the party and the government.

To ensure peaceful elections next year, the delegates endorsed President J. A. Kufuor's call on the need to ensure that the elections are held in an atmosphere of goodwill and urged all political parties in the country to help to make this a reality.

The delegates congratulated the President Kufuor on his re-election as Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and pledged their support for the Presidency.