PPP to hold rally at Mankessim today

The Progressive People's Party (PPP) will hold a rally at Mankessim in the Central Region today, to beef up its campaign and unveil its next plan of actions towards election 2016.

According to the party's Presidential Candidate, Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, "now that all the court cases have been solved with PPP knowing its position on the ballot paper, the people need to know that we are in this race to win and not to joke around"."Immediately after the mammoth rally, we will hit the various institutions in the region. We will go to all the tertiary institutions to outline our vision and agenda for change to the students," he said in an interview with the Daily Graphic.He said the party was ready and prepared to go all out to show to the people that "election 2016 is ours to take".PPP biggest threatDr Nduom said the PPP was the biggest threat to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and that any attempt to underestimate the party would be at their own peril."I have toured four regions in the last six days and the massive support I saw and the level of work done by my parliamentary candidates have shown that this year's election will prove how solid the PPP has become," he said.Asked whether the court case with the Electoral Commission (EC) had affected the party in any way, Dr Nduom said it did not only affect them but some political parties used it to deceive his supporters, especially those in the remote areas, that the PPP would not be part of the December 7 polls."The NDC and NPP went about telling Ghanaians that the PPP will not be contesting this year's election because the EC disqualified us," he said.Dr Nduom said the fear the NDC and the NPP had developed for the PPP had made them use lies and deceit to campaign against the party.Trump victory a sign of changeDr Nduom said the victory of the Republican candidate, Donald Trump, in the just-ended United States of America (US) presidential elections was similar to the cry for positive change in Ghana, which would inure to his benefit at the December 7 polls.Just as Donald Trump, Dr Nduom, who is a business consultant, expressed the strong belief that, “The people are dissatisfied, disenchanted with what is known as the establishment, and they are saying we want change, but we also want change with people who have not been so much into the establishment.”He expressed the strongest conviction “that what has been going on around the world, including in Africa and Europe, is telling us something that the people are not happy”.