NPP tasked to police electoral process
The northern regional chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Daniel Bugri Naabu, has asked members of the party to police the electoral process from the polling station to the national level.
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He said the party ought to roll out a robust monitoring mechanism to prevent manipulation of the electoral process in order to win the November 7, 2016 polls.
“Past events have taught us useful lessons that elections are won at the polling station, so we do not have to leave anything to chance,” he said.
Event
Mr Bugri Naaba was speaking in Accra last Sunday at an event held at Old Fadama in the Odododiodoo Constituency to inaugurate the Konkomba Tertiary Students for NPP, a youth group of the party.
The event brought together NPP executive members of the Odododiodoo Constituency, Greater Accra Regional office, Members of Parliament some parliamentary candidates of the party and student representatives from some tertiary institutions.
Key among the party officials were the MP for the Yendi Constituency, Alhaji Tijani Habibu Mohammad, parliamentary candidate for Nkwanta-North, Mr David Batul Makinye, and the parliamentary candidate for Odododiodoo Nii Lante Bannerman.
Clad in the party’s paraphernalia, amid heavy presence of the party’s internal security forces and police officers, the NPP family danced and shouted party slogans.
Youth and campaign
Mr Bugri Naaba indicated that even though the NPP was committed to peace in the upcoming elections, it would not sit unconcerned for any stakeholder in the elections to take undue advantage.
The outspoken chairman said the party was focused on making the youth a key part of its election campaign to enable it to garner more grass-roots support and win more floating voters for the party.
“We expect this youth wing to go to all Konkomba communities in the country with the message of change. We cannot continue to suffer under a government that has not lived up to expectation,” he said.
Mr Bugri Naaba catalogued a number of social intervention programmes that were initiated by the NPP government from 2001 to 2008, including the School Capitation Grant (SCG), School Feeding Programme (SFP), and National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) and said those initiatives had been mismanaged by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government.
Alhaji Tijani urged the youth to “go to all corners of the country and preach the message of the NPP to all people.”
He reassured the student group and the public that an elected NPP government would bring back the teacher trainee allowances that had been cancelled by the NDC government.
Pledge to deliver
Meanwhile, the President of the Konkomba Tertiary Students for NPP, Mr Samuel Malu Lasiem, has said the group’s major goal is to win 17 parliamentary seats for the NPP in the Konkomba-dominated areas across the country.
