ANALYSE NPP'S ACHIEVEMENTS OBJECTIVELY — OSSEI AIDOOH (Page 17)

Story: Rose Hayford Darko, Tema

THE Majority Leader in Parliament and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Mr Abraham Ossei Aidooh, has appealed to Ghanaians to analyse objectively the achievements of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and vote for it against any other party which has nothing to showcase.
He said the NPP must be voted back to power in the 2008 general election because of its record of development, style of governance and physical infrastructure.
Mr Aidooh was addressing polling station executive and party supporters of the Tema West Constituency of the NPP in Tema yesterday after a keep fit session through some principal streets of the municipality.
He declared his intention to stand again after being the Member of Parliament for the area for three terms and urged them to 'retire any competitor who will want to come into the game'.
Mr Aidooh noted that Ghanaians are peace-loving people and will want to vote peacefully and therefore appealed to them to support a party which would not thrive on insults.
He said the NPP government had instituted measures to accrue sufficient funds for the provision of jobs for the youth, stating that the talk time tax was an example and therefore appealed to Ghanaians to support the decision to tax talk time per minute to make the exercise a success.
Mr Aidooh said the opposition had made noise about certain decisions of the government because they could see the potential of its viability which will make them lose their stand of winning.
He emphasised that the NPP has respect for the mandate of the Electoral Commission and therefore will always abide by its decisions.
Mr Aidooh said the Government had passed the ROPAB into law but will not impose it on the EC noting that the EC is an independent, capable body and therefore could decide to use it for the 2008 elections.
He was, however, optimistic that the NPP will win the elections by a 60 per cent margin and therefore called on party sympathisers to ensure one touch victory.
Mr Aidooh said NPP would never rig elections to win but rather ensure that there was free and fair voting pattern to the satisfaction of the voting public.
He called on all peace-loving people to join hands with the NPP to develop the nation, create jobs for the youth and operate a sound economy for the country.
Mr Aidooh said it would be important for all Ghanaians to see the good work of the NPP which had started to manifest in the lives of the people.
The NPP National Women's Organiser, Mrs Rita Asobayire urged the youth to register massively to exercise their franchise during the 2008 elections.
She said all the noise making would be useless if they did not vote for the party.
Mrs Asobayire extended greetings from Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to the Tema East constituents and urged them to lift high the flag of the NPP to victory.
She reminded them that the pattern should be such that both the flag bearer and the member of parliament of the NPP were voted for simultaneously.
Mrs Asobayire said NPP had won elections from the grass-roots and not from the top and therefore expected that trend to follow for the 2008 elections.
She said the elections should be on issues and not on insults and advised the electorate to ensure that they did not use insulting language during the campaign.
Mrs Asobayire observed that the opposition NDC was deliberately creating confusion by blaming the NPP of unsubstantiated allegations and appealed to the people to overlook the moves to detract their attention and concentrate on moves which will make the NPP win one touch.
The Tema West Constituency Secretary of the NPP, Mr Harry Osei Owusu said the constituency executive and the party supporters had endorsed the decision of Mr Aidoo to stand again as the Member of Parliament of the Constituency.