NDC to recapture Agona West and East parliamentary seats

Agona Swedru, Nov 28, GNA - The Agona West Youth Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Eric Appoh, has stated that the party will recapture the two parliamentary seats in the Agona District from the Ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2008 general elections. He said the party had been well restructured at the grassroots and was spreading "good messages" to the supporters and floating voters in the two constituencies on the need to vote massively for NDC to come back to power.

Speaking to the Ghana News Agency in an interview at Agona Swedru on Wednesday, Mr Appoh said the message of Prof Attah Mills, the flag bearer, "I care for you" and the door-to-door campaign was going down well with the people in the area.

He noted that market women, shop owners, taxi and tro-tro drivers had realized the need to vote for Prof Attah Mils to become President in the next year's general elections in order to manage the economy well. Ghanaians especially, the people of the Central Region had rejected the NPP government because of its hard economic policies that had brought untold hardship on them, Mr Appoh said.

He said the drivers and parents in the area were complaining about the austerity measures adopted by the government, which did not favour them and had expressed their readiness to vote against the NPP. Mr Appoh assured Prof Attah Mills, the National and Regional executives of the party that the two constituencies were working hard to mobilise more supporters for NDC.

He appealed to the national executives of the party to provide adequate logistics to all the 19 constituencies in the Central Region, saying, "We are determined to work assiduously to defeat the ruling party but we only need financial assistance in order to achieve our aims and objectives".

Touching of the air time-tax system, recently announced by the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning in the 2008 budget, Mr Appoh emphasised that it would restrain majority of Ghanaians from using mobile phones, which was the fastest means of communication. He said Ghanaians had tasted the government of NDC and NPP and would judge for themselves in the next year's elections and expressed the hope that the people would give the nod to the NDC to rule the country to improve their living standards.