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General News of Wednesday, 29 May 2019

Source: mynewsgh.com

No mortal can stop Akufo-Addo’s 2nd term as President - Minister

Upper East Regional Minister, Ms Paulina Patience Abayage Upper East Regional Minister, Ms Paulina Patience Abayage

The Upper East Regional Minister. Ms Paulina Patience Abayage has envisaged that the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will remain at the Jubilee House come 2020 general elections stressing that no human being can stop him.

She said though the President and members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) have some herculean task to accomplish before the next elections, President Akufo-Addo will maintain his position.

‘We have a lot of work to do before 2020 elections, it’s a daunting task, we have about one year to the next elections. Trust me whether anybody likes it or yes President Akufo-Addo will be crowned President in 2020 elections, Insha Allah and no human being can stop that,’ She predicted when she addressed NPP constituency women organisers during a graduation ceremony on skills and development workshop in Bolgatanga monitored by MyNewsGh.com.

Madam Paulina Abayage charged the NPP constituency women organisers to move beyond the rhetoric and work very hard in their constituencies to ensure that the party retains power.

She observed that the NPP has a struggling past in the Upper East Region hoping that things will turn around in the 2020 elections where they will win more parliamentary seats and voter margin for the presidential will also go up.

The Upper East Regional Minister stressed that the region cannot continue to be counted last when it comes to NPP’s regional vote fortunes.

‘We have only three seats in the region and even that we had to struggle before we achieved that feat in 2016 elections. We need to work hard to secure more votes.’ she advised.

She entreated the constituency women organisers to impart the knowledge acquired through their training to other women no matter their political colours in order to convince them to defect to NPP.

She admitted that there are some elements in the largest opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) who are not easily convinced, there are others who can be convinced.

According to her, floating voters only care about good government policies and how the policies are explained to them.

‘Try to target women who are ready to learn, train them no matter their political colours, once they are ready to learn the trade, teach them, who knows, maybe in the cause of doing that you will be able to change their minds,’ she urged.