The Acting National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddie Blay has indicated that the party will prevent any alleged plot by the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) to rig this year’s general elections.
According to him, the NDC had always resorted to illegal means to win elections in the country, stressing that this time round, the NPP would not allow activists of the ruling party to use subtle means to overturn the results in their favour.
Mr Blay disclosed this while addressing hundreds of NPP supporters and sympathizers at the launch of the campaign of the Evalue-Ajomoro-Gwira constituency branch of the party last Saturday at Axim in the Western Region.
He was very hopeful that the people of the Western region, who usually decide the victors in the country’s elections, would vote massively for the NPP to prove that indeed he was from the region.
He called on all Ghanaians to reject the NDC if they want improved standard of living since the stock-in-trade of the ruling party had always been mismanaging the economy and bringing untold hardships on innocent Ghanaians.
Hon Freddie Blay with Catherine Afeku at the programme
Hon Freddie Blay, who spoke in the Nzema dialect intermittently, called on the electorate in the Evalue-Ajomoro-Gwira constituency to vote for the NPP parliamentary candidate, Catherine Abelema Afeku for more development projects in the area after the general elections.
On his part, Joe Ghartey, Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, told the people of Nzema that the plan of the presidential candidate of the NPP, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to build one factory in every district in the country was achievable.
The 2016 presidential candidate of the NPP, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, as part of plans to industrialise and transform the Ghanaian economy, has indicated that his administration would establish a factory in each of the 216 districts across the country if given the nod.
However, some activists of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and some Ghanaians have asserted that the promise made by the NPP standard bearer to build one factory in each district in the country should not be taken seriously.
Member of Parliament (MP) for Essikado-Ketan emphasized that Nana Addo’s policy was doable and called on the electorate to ignore the pessimists.
The MP indicated that the laudable initiative would help create more jobs in the various districts for the teeming unemployed youth in the various districts.
He therefore admonished the people of Nzema, especially the youth to support the NPP and vote massively for the party, its flagbearer and parliamentary candidates in this year’s general elections to create more jobs for the people.
“You have more coconut plantations in the Nzema area and so when the NPP is given the nod, it is possible to establish a factory that would need coconut as its raw material which will create jobs,” he added.
The parliamentary candidate of the NPP for Evalue-Ajomoro-Gwira, Catherine Ablema Affeku also appealed to her constituents to vote for her and Nana Addo to fast track development in the constituency.
From Emmanuel Opoku, Takoradi