NASARA Club to intensify campaign Pledges to match NDC boot for boot

Story: Nana Konadu
Agyeman, Koforidua
07/03/08

THE national executives of the Nasara Club, a wing of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has stated that it would go all out to ensure that people living in Zongo communities across the country would vote massively for the party.
This, according to them, would enable the party's presidential candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo who they claimed was also born and bred in a Zongo community to emerge the ultimate winner in the 2008 general elections.
The National Organiser of the club, Alhaji Moctar Bamba, who made the declaration after the national and regional executives of the club called on elders and opinion leaders of the various Zongo communities at Koforidua , said "we as a wing of the NPP declare a holy war on the NDC to match them boot for boot and will not leave any breathing space for them to operate in any Zongo community".
"More than ever before, we have adopted multi-system strategies and are more determined to help our great party win about 60 per cent of the votes, come the general election in 2008", Alhaji Bamba emphasised.
The national organiser, who declined to disclose the strategies adopted by the club, said contrary to popular claims by the NDC that Zongo communities in the country were strongholds of that party, the NPP had strongly identified with a large segment of the population in the various Zongo communities.
He claimed that the presidential candidate of the NPP was a Nima-Zongo born and bred boy who had identified himself with the needs and interests of the people, a situation which would enable the party win massive votes from such communities.
"Nana Addo Dankwa, a Zongo man born and bred with us at Nima, has well integrated with us over the years and knows our problems better than any other presidential candidate. We are proud to have one of us emerging to contest the presidency", he stated.
According to him, unlike the 20-year rule of the NDC regime, which saw no significant development in the various Zongo communities in the country, the seven-year rule of the NPP government had led to massive socio-economic development, peace and tranquility as well as good governance.
Alhaji Bamba mentioned the provision of various social amenities such as the construction of roads, health facilities, school buildings, the introduction of the National Health Insurance Scheme, the Capitation Grant and the School Feeding programmes as well as the free ride for school children and the discovery of commercial quantities of oil as some of the good works of the present government.
He, therefore, urged the Zongo communities to critically assess the performance of the present government and that of the previous government under the NDC before casting their votes in the 2008 elections.
For his part, the Deputy National Chairman of the club, Alhaji Shiabu Musah Shariff, noted that Zongo communities across the country had over the years constituted major strategic targets for the various political parties.
He said it was in recognition of the significant role of Zongo communities in Ghana’s politic that the Nasara Club, a wing of the NPP, had set for itself the "object to appeal to the hearts and minds of our people to throw their weight behind our own brother, Nana Addo Dankwa".
As part of strategies to reach all the Zongo communities, he said the national executives of the club would tour all the regions to interact with the people and opinion leaders.
The Chairman of the club, Alhaji Fusseini Maiga, stated that unlike the NDC regime, where the people and the media had little or no right to express their views, the present government had created a friendly environment for freedom of speech, for both the media and the people.