BA NPP Youth Hold Rally

Mr. Sammy Awuku (middle) and Abronye DC (L)
THE RACE to recapture the Brong-Ahafo Region for the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2016 elections has begun with a mammoth rally at Bechem in the Tano South District.

The weekend event, which saw bigwigs of the NPP from the national headquarters, Ashanti and the Brong-Ahafo Regions, was used to raise funds to procure logistics to support the campaign of the youth wing.

Speaker upon speaker chastised the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government for the economic dungeon it has put the nation into, with its attendant untold hardships.

The regional chairman of the party, Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh, called for national prayers for the country because according to him, the nation has come to the crossroads.

He however, mentioned that the economic mismanagement by the NDC government would not automatically affirm political power for the NPP.

The regional chairman therefore called for hard work, commitment and sacrifice by all party members and sympathizers, devoid of internal bickering, to attract more people to the party.

'We need to go back to the spirit of total commitment and sacrifice which brought the party into power in 2000,' he pointed out.

Mr. Asomah-Cheremeh appealed to the rank and file of the party to be mindful of their pronouncements so as to keep the unity of the party intact, while advising aspiring parliamentary candidates to conduct themselves according to the tenets of the party's constitution.

The national youth organiser, Sammy Awuku, stressed the need for a change of government in 2016 to save Ghanaians from further hardships.

Mr. Awuku said the future belongs to the youth and therefore challenged them to be courageous and work extra harder to join the campaign to get rid of the Mahama-Amissah-Arthur administration. He called for efforts to capture first time voters to vote for the party.

Kwame Baffoe aka Abronye DC, the regional youth organizer, vowed to lead the youth wing to pursue a vigorous campaign to increase the NPP's 13 seats to 23 in 2016.

He took a swipe at the Tano South NDC MP, Dr Hannah Bissiw, for deceiving the people in the area as he alleged that the MP had announced at various forums that she had constructed all the roads in her constituency.

The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the NPP, Bernard Antwi-Boasiako aka Wontumi, promised to adopt the Tano South constituency, currently being occupied by the NDC.

According to him, he would put every resource in place to equip the party to snatch the seat, which was one of the traditional seats of the NPP.

Alfred Ofori Annye, the regional secretary, maintained that the economic mess created by the NDC government had taken a great toll on all state institutions, most of which are lacking the basic logistics like stationeries to operate with.

Other speakers were Nana Obiri Boahen, deputy general secretary of the NPP; Ignatius Baffour Awuah, MP for Sunyani West and Yaw Adomako Baafi, a leading member of the party.

FROM Fred Tettey Alarti-Amoako, Bechem
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