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Rev Tetteh Caternor, a front runner in the La Dadekotopon parliamentary primary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has revved up the political atmosphere in the area, exhorting the party’s delegates to vote the right person to champion their cause.
Drawing large sections of the party’s teeming youthful delegates, as well as the elderly to his campaign launch in La, he said that it is time that voters look at the quality and the sincerity of the people they want to lead them.
“It is time we demand the change we want and we should only vote for change managers, who have proved that they can really think outside the box to bring the kind of change that we all really deserve.
“I represent that change and I will lead the change that this constituency needs”, he told a jubilant crowd of supporters and sympathisers at the La Manjaanor, a popular square in the area.
Rev Caternor said the time has come for the fundamental values of the NDC that forges unity of purpose is brought to bear on the constituents, assuring them that he would foster a sense of belonging in the community and be in touch with the grassroots.
“The sense of belonging is no more. The united front of the NDC in the 1992 is not the same. There are too many divisions in the party. People are raising tribal sentiments that don’t help the party.
“It is time we visit the old values of this our dear party to bring everybody together to foster the kind of harmony that La needs to develop… and we must vote for a unifier who would appeal to all and sundry in the constituency,” he said.
T.T, as Rev Caternor is popularly called, was the immediate past secretary of the NDC in the constituency.
He told the supporters that when he gets their mandate and when subsequently elected the legislator for the constituency, he would strive to arrest the falling standard of education in the area.
He said he would ensure that school dropout rate in the constituency is reduced to the barest minimum, and push for scholarships to enable his people excel in education.
On the issue of employment, Rev Caternor said what is needed is someone who could think outside the box to create viable opportunities for the people.
He said he would revamp the fishing sector in La to get the youth into fishing again.
He said he would lobby for a proper landing beach site and a premix fuel station to enhance the fishing business in order to alleviate poverty among the indigenes of the area.
The aspirant also mooted the idea of constructing a new central lorry station in the area and instituting leveraging on other social interventions to enable the La people to live dignified lives.
The youth of the town who were taken in by the “frankness” of Rev Caternor, carried him shoulder- high and paraded him through the principal streets of the La township amidst drumming and dancing, shouting “Caternor is our best bet”.
Oseina Sowah, a supporter who spoke to the GNA said: “We the people of La are convinced that we need him (Caternor) to champion our cause. He is the one we need right now”.
Rev Caternor is contesting two others, including the incumbent Member of Parliament, Nii Amasah Namoale and Augustine Nii Amoah Nai.
The aspirants would be vetted on Tuesday, September 22.
