NPP asked to close communication gap between party and electorate

Wa, Sept. 4, GNA – The communications team of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has been asked to step up its efforts to close the communication gap between the party and the electorate.

Mr. Sahanun Mogtar, Ambassador to Burkina Faso, under the President Kufuor's government, who made the call, said this would help brighten the party's chances in Election 2012.

Mr. Mogtar, also a former Upper West Regional Minister, said this during the inauguration of a group of Nadowli East NPP Youth resident outside the constituency, in Wa at the weekend.

He said the National Democratic Congress (NDC), with its strong propaganda machinery, had succeeded in confusing some voters that its three-and-half-year governance was more productive than the eight years of the New Patriotic Party in government.

Mr. Mogtar said the NDC was riding “on the back of programmes and policies initiated by the Kufuor government that they had successfully turned into their own,” and called on the NPP to defuse this through effective voter education, especially in the rural areas.

Mr Mogtar alleged that some structures at Wa Polytechnic and the Wa campus of the University for Development Studies started by the erstwhile NPP government had been abandoned by the NDC, yet the government is claiming it had done a lot for those two institutions.

He claimed the Kufuor-led government transferred the faculty of Integrated Development Studies from Navrongo Campus to Wa and built all the structures at the campus.

Mr. Mogtar said that before the NPP left office, it had acquired resources to extend electricity to about 50,000 communities countrywide but the NDC had used these resources to extend electricity to rural communities, and is claiming credit for the project.

Mr. Aziz Gado, a former Wa Municipal Chief Executive, said “it would be an indictment on the part of former Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives and former Ministers under the Kufuor regime to allow the NDC to succeed with their propaganda that the NPP did nothing during eight years of governing the country.”

Alhaji Abubakar Abdul-Rahman, NPP Chairman for Upper West, commended the Nadowli East youth resident outside the constituency for coming together to campaign to take back the parliamentary seat the party failed to win in the 2008 elections.

Alhaji Seidu Bagonluri, Nadowli East Constituency NPP Chairman, appealed to the youth to go about their campaign devoid of violence, to sustain peace and consolidate the country's democratic gains.

GNA