DON'T BE WOOED BY NPP — NDC (PAGE 16)

THE Eastern Regional Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Tawiah Boateng, has called on the party’s polling station agents and other members not to allow themselves to be influenced by material and financial gifts offered them by some executive members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
He said the party faithful must resist such influences by strictly adhering to the party’s ideology of remaining committed to the party.
Launching the campaign of the Suhum Constituency parliamentary aspirant of the party, Mr Boateng said, “NPP, desperate to win the upcoming elections, will go all out to buy your voting rights with money that belongs to the state and seek your support to rig the upcoming elections. You should, therefore, stand in good faith and resist such influences,” Mr Boateng stated.
The event was witnessed by a large audience including the party’s National Organiser, Mr Ofosu Ampofo; its Eastern Regional Chairman, Mr Julius Debrah, and his Secretary, Mr Anthony Gyampo, as well as the Ashanti Regional Chairman, Mr Ohene Agyekum.
Buttressing his point, Mr Boateng said Ghanaians, faced with severe economic hardship, were prepared to vote the NPP government out of power, which had made its officials to adopt aggressive strategies, including monetary and material offers to woo members of the NDC and other opposition parities to their side.
The regional organiser also expressed worry about the attempts by the NPP government to incarcerate some top executive members of the NDC, citing the sentencing of Mr Tsatsu Tsikata and the possible sentencing of the former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, in November, this year.
According to him, such plots were part of strategies to clip the wings of the party and, therefore, urged its rank and file to unite and work hard to wrest power from the NPP in the December elections.
For his part, Mr Ampofo bemoaned the unhealthy attitude of some members of the NPP government towards the award of a national honour to the flag bearer of the NDC, whom he described as a statesman who had rendered 25 years of distinguished selfless service to the country.
He pointed out that to ensure peace within the rank and file of the NPP and the nation as whole, Professor Atta Mills had decided to turn down the award, which he described as “a cheap gesture now meant even for those who do not deserve it” .
For his part, Mr Gyampo said out of the 28 constituencies in the Eastern Region, the NDC had six, but was poised to win 12 additional ones and, therefore, entreated its members to work hard to make such dream a reality.
To avoid any rigging during the elections, Mr Gyampo appealed to members of the party, particularly teachers, doctors and lawyers, to volunteer to be the party’s polling agents during the elections.