2024 election: Vote for NPP as thanksgiving - Sarfo Patrick urges students

The Ashanti Regional Youth Wing of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has urged beneficiaries of the Free Senior High School (SHS) policy to use the 2024 parliamentary and presidential elections as a thank-you service for the NPP by voting for the party.

The Ashanti Regional Youth Organiser for the NPP, Rafael Sarfo Patrick, who made the call, appealed to all free SHS beneficiaries who are due to vote to help safeguard the policy by voting massively for the NPP in the December elections.

He called on all first-time voters in the Ashanti Region and the country at large to register and get their names on the voter register to allow them to vote during the 2024 elections.

He said this on Monday, May 6, 2024, when the party's youth wing engaged some first-time voters who are also beneficiaries of the free SHS policy on the need to vote for the NPP.

The engagement, which brought hundreds of youth in the region together, also aimed at educating them on the importance of participating in the limited voter registration exercise by the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC), which is set to commence on Tuesday, May 7, 2024.

The NPP Youth Organiser, however, called on Ghanaian electorates to reject any flagbearer who does not support the free SHS policy.

He noted that a vote for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is a serious threat to the sustainability of the policy.

Some of the participants, in an interview with OTEC News reporter Jacob Agyenim Boateng, commended the NPP government for the policy.

They described the free SHS policy as a pro-poor intervention that has helped millions of students attain formal education.

They entreated their fellow youth, especially those who have benefited from the Free SHS policy, to make no mistake in voting for John Mahama, stressing that he only wants to come to power to downplay the relevance of the policy.