NPP MP urges Party to work hard to win more Volta seats

Ho, Oct. 15, GNA - Mr Joseph Kwaku Nayan, the only

New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament in the Volta

Region has implored the Party to undertake diligent studies

into its performance with a view to improving on it in future

elections. =93There is need to go back to the drawing board to

develop new strategies and review old ones in order to win

more seats,=94 Mr Nayan, MP for Nkwanta-North and Deputy

Volta Regional Minister, told an NPP regional delegates'

conference in Ho on Saturday. Mr Nayan congratulated foot soldiers of the Party for

winning the Nkwanta-North seat. Mr Edmund Ankomah, Special Assistant to the Chief of

Staff at the Castle, called for unity and hard work among

Party activists to enable them to win at least 30 percent of

the votes in the region. NPP representatives from the Eastern and Western

regions, the regional Youth and Women's wings, Tertiary

Students Confederation (TESCON), as well as spokesmen of

some aspiring Presidential candidates, also addressed the

conference. In attendance was Isaac Kodobisah, Volta Regional

Deputy Regional Secretary of the National Democratic

Congress. Mr Kofi Nyankopah, Western Regional First Vice

Chairman of the NPP, said all was on course to raise the 57

percent votes gained by the Party in the 2004 elections to 70

percent in 2008. He predicted that in 2008, the NPP will snatch four

constituencies from the NDC in addition to its current seats

and also support the Convention People's Party to retain its

two places. The thrust of all the messages delivered at the

conference was on the need for unity and cooperation

among party members, in addition to hard work to enable it

retain power in 2008. Present at the conference were Major Courage

Quashigah (Rtd), Minister of Health and Mr Kofi Dzamesi,

the Regional Minister.