President Akufo-Addo cutting the sod for the construction of the Technical and Vocational Education Centre at Anyinam
PRESIDENT NANA Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has tasked the leadership of the Ashanti Regional New Patriotic Party (NPP) to campaign vigorously and win all the 47 seats in the region during the 2020 polls.
According to him, even though the ruling NPP currently holds 44 of the seats in the region, he has strong conviction that the party has the capacity to sweep all the 47 parliamentary seats in the region in 2020 based on the good works his government is doing for the people.
Addressing the chiefs and people of Drobonso in the Sekyere Afram Plains District during the last day of his three-day tour of the Ashanti Region, the President stated that there was no way that any seat should elude the NPP in its stronghold.
“The Ashanti Region is the NPP’s stronghold and currently we have 44 out of the 47 seats in the region and I am demanding all the 47 seats from the leadership of this party during the next elections,” he openly declared.
President Akufo-Addo said Sekyere Afram Plains, Asawase and Ejura Sekyeredumase seats, which are currently in the hand of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), must fall for the NPP in 2020.
According to him, his government has successfully steered the affairs of state and that has brought about accelerated development in the 47 constituencies in the region and so the NPP deserves all the 47 seats in 2020.
President Akufo-Addo said even though the time for campaign has not yet commenced, he would still entreat the people of Sekyere Afram Plains to vote for Joseph Owusu aka ‘Odenkyem’, who is the NPP’s candidate for 2020.
According to him, Odenkyem, who is the current District Chief Executive (DCE) for Sekyere Afram Plains, is the suitable person to lead the constituency to overcome its myriads of challenges and bring prosperity.
Nana’s Tour
President Akufo-Addo during his three-day tour of the region inspected ongoing roads and other projects and urged the contractors to speed up work for the people to get some relief.
On the first day of his tour, he inspected the lake road project, the Onwe bridge project, the removal of four roundabouts from Tech to Ejisu and the Airport Roundabout to Buokrom road in Kumasi, among others.
He also visited the Suame Magazine, where he announced that a 10-kilometre road project in the industrial hub would soon be constructed to help ease the movement of people and goods.
The President also commissioned a second drone centre at Mpanya in the Asante Mampong Municipality in the Ashanti Region, to help improve medical supplies and care for the people.
Also, he visited the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, at the Manhyia Palace, where he gave the assurance that the deplorable road networks in the region would be tackled very soon.
Again, the President attended Ashanti Regional Security Council (REGSEC) meeting, where he announced plans to improve security in the region, especially in the Sekyere Afram Plains area where the Fulani menace is still an issue.
FROM I.F. Joe Awuah Jnr., SekyereAfram Plains