KNUST Staff Join NPP Campaign

NANA ADDO Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate, says the party needs the efforts and brains of every party member to help the NPP secure victory in 2016.

He has consequently admonished all loyal NPP members to come onboard with their expertise and ideas so that the party would, in unison, campaign vigorously to win the upcoming presidential polls.

Nana Akufo-Addo made the call in a speech read on his behalf by Ayisi Boateng, a party capo, during the inaugural ceremony of the KNUST NPP Frontliners at KNUST in Kumasi on Sunday.

The KNUST NPP Frontliners is a group which is made up of senior staff members at the university and people who operate businesses on the university's campus. The group seeks to use the expertise of members to help the NPP win the 2016 polls.

Nana Akufo-Addo welcomed the idea of the formation of the KNUST NPP Frontliners, stressing that the party needed a scientific-based approach in order to campaign and secure more votes in 2016.

The NPP flagbearer therefore told the KNUST NPP Frontliners that the NPP would be depending heavily on them during the electioneering campaign for the 2016 elections.

Nana Addo stated emphatically that he didn't support any of the persons campaigning for parliamentary positions in the NPP, warning those campaigning in his name to desist from the practice.

The NPP leader said he believed in the abilities of all the party people contesting for the parliamentary positions and that party delegates should take note of the fact that he had no favourites.

He noted that the NPP needed total unity in order to defeat the NDC in the 2016 elections, stressing the need for party members to embrace unity and shun acts that could divide the party.

NPP National Chairman, Paul Afoko, in a speech read on his behalf by FF Anto, 3^rd Vice Chairperson, sternly cautioned the NPP not to take the NDC's promise of winning one million votes and 10 seats in the Ashanti Region lightly.

According to him, the NDC made some inroads in terms of vote accumulation in the Ashanti Region in recent polls, and that the NPP could therefore be shocked by the NDC in 2016 if they (NPP) became complacent.

Afoko said even though it was clear that the NDC government was not performing, which had resulted in excessive hardship, power cuts and high utility bills, the NPP could not count on the NDC's failures alone to win the 2016 elections.

The chairman tasked the KNUST NPP Frontliners to help the NPP with scientific-based methods of campaigning so that the party could wrest political power from the NDC in 2016.

Dr Kwabena Boadu, President, KNUST NPP Frontliners, said hardship had overwhelmed Ghanaians under the NDC administration, urging all intellectuals in the country to rise and join the battle to defeat the NDC in 2016.

'With these severe challenges, the intellectuals, the middle class, can no longer sit and look unconcerned whilst our dear country gets into abyss,' he said, stressing that the NPP was the best alternative government to salvage Ghana's sinking economy.

Dr Boadu described the 2016 elections as a must-win for the NPP, passionately appealing to the Electoral Commission (EC) to scrap the current voters' register and compile a more credible one.

FROM I.F. Joe Awuah Jnr., Kumasi