NPP to retain its Parliamentary seats

Nkawkaw, Aug. 10, GNA - Mr Dan Botwe, General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has said the Party would retain all its 105 parliamentary seats and win 60 additional ones to ensure an overwhelming victory in Election 2004.

He, therefore, called on NPP members who have decided to contest as independent parliamentary candidates to rescind their decision and join the Party so that it could attain a resounding victory.

Mr Botwe was addressing a Party rally at Nkawkaw at the weekend after the Party's endorsement by acclamation of Mr Okerchiri Kwabena Adusa as the NPP Parliamentary Candidate for the Nkawkaw Constituency. All the 102 Polling Station Chairmen and Constituency Executive approved of Mr Adusa.

Mr Botwe said Mr Adusa, who is the incumbent NPP Member of Parliament (MP) for Nkawkaw, was a valuable asset for the Party in Parliament and urged the electorate to vote for him to enable the Party to retain the seat.

He said the Government's development programme was on track, adding that it was for this reason that a number of donor countries continued to give the country financial and material support for development. Mr Botwe said the NPP Government within its three-and-a-half years' rule had attained much development for the country, which no other administration had been able to achieve.

The Minister of Railways, Ports and Harbours, Professor Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi said the Government had plans to rehabilitate the country's railway system and to extend it to Burkina Faso and urged the electorate to retain the NPP in power to enable it to implement the programme.

Dr Francis Osafo-Mensah, Eastern Regional Minister, said any NPP supporter who would vote for President John Agyekum Kufuor as President and vote for an independent candidate as MP would be considered as not being faithful to the Party.

He, therefore, appealed to supporters of independent candidates to vote for NPP parliamentary candidates.

Dr Osafo-Mensah gave the assurance that the Government would exploit the country's resources for equitable development. Nana Adi Ankamah, Eastern Regional Chairman of NPP, said the Party would win all the 28 parliamentary seats in the Region and urged supporters to intensify their electioneering campaign towards an overwhelming victory.

Mr Adusa thanked the delegates for the confidence reposed in him and urged them to unite and work towards an absolute victory for the Party at the polls.