Akufo-Addo predicts landslide victory for NPP

Koforidua, (E/R), June 29, GNA-Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, flag bearer of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), on Friday predicted a landslide victory for the party in the forthcoming presidential and parliamentary elections.

He apologised to party members and supporters who have been hurt one way or the other, especially parliamentary aspirants who lost the NPP primaries or were disqualified by the National Executive Committee of the party and urged them to burry their differences and rally behind the party for a massive victory in December.

Nana Akufo-Addo rendered the apology when he addressed NPP supporters and sympathizers at the NPP Eastern Regional solidarity conference at Koforidua.

He said at the moment NPP needed absolute unity to move the party forward to victory.

Nana Akufo-Addo said if the party united, there was no political party in the country that could withstand NPP. "If you do not win to become a member of parliament or executive member of the party, that does not mean you cannot serve the party again", Nana Akufo-Addo stressed.

He said he was encouraged by the response of the people in the areas he had visited and urged the NPP supporters to work harder to ensure that the massive response was translated into votes in December. Dr Kofi Konadu Apraku, NPP National Campaign Manager, said the eight years achievements of President John Agyekum Kufuor were far better than the nineteen years rule of former President Rawlings and his two governments.

He said the people have embraced the National Health Insurance Scheme policy the Capitation Grant, School Feeding Programme and mass transportation introduced by government towards improving the living standards of the people.

Mr Yaw Sarfo Maafo, former minister for finance, cautioned Ghanaians to be wary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) propaganda aimed at destroying the NPP government. Mr Yaw Gyekye Amoabeng, Eastern Regional chairman of the party, predicted that the party would win not less than 26 seats in the region in the 2008 Election.

Other speakers included Mr Kwabena Agyepong, former press secretary to the president, Mr Emmanuel Agyarko, parliamentary candidate for the lower Manya and Ms Susana Mensah former Eastern Regional Deputy Minster. The NPP Parliamentary candidates in the region were introduced to the supporters.