Don't allow gifts to influence your voting - NPP

Tumu, Dec 14, GNA- Alhaji Abudulai Issahaque, Upper West Regional Chairman of New Patriotic Party (NPP) has cautioned voters in the region not to allow gifts to influence their voting pattern in next year's elections.

"Such gifts can never improve your lives beyond the day you receive them. The NDC after buying your vote will make you poorer and miserable so don't vote for them again". Alhaji Issahaque said this at the Sissala constituency delegates' conference of the party at Tumu, during which the old executive led by Mr Abbass Dawuda was retained.

After 18 years in government the NDC, he said, has run out of ideas and is now governing the country by "trial and error". Inaugurating the "Young Elephants", the youth wing of the party at the function, the Regional Secretary, Mr Sahanun Mogtar called on them to commit themselves to the party's cause since their salvation from their present conditions lies on its winning power.

He called for state funding of political parties because that was the most important step towards levelling the political field and sustaining the young democracy. A 54-year old administrator, Mr Lamini Mushudu Dawudu was chosen unopposed as the party's parliamentary candidate for the constituency.

He pledged to use his organisational skills acquired over several years of working in the public and private sectors to win the constituency for the party. GNA