THE Upper West Regional Council of Elders of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has appealed to the flag bearer of the Party, Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo, to consider selecting a running mate from any of the three northern regions.
According to the council, the northern part of Ghana was still important in the politics of the country and must, therefore, be actively engaged in the scheme of things.
“We therefore urge the flag bearer to consider our appeal so that our opponents would not use propaganda to describe our party as anti-northern Ghana”, it added.
Briefing the Daily Graphic after a meeting to review the activities of the council in Wa, the Vice Chairman of the council, Mr Clement Dibu-Dong, said what happened in the last election where the then running mate to Nana Akufo-Addo, Dr Mumuni Bawumia, did not perform well to win the northern votes should not discourage the party when selecting a running mate.
He said the people of the north had now compared and deciphered the difference between the opposition NPP and the governing National Democratic Congress and was hopeful that given the chance for a northern running mate the NPP would do very well in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions.
He said, the NPP must position itself in northern Ghana so as to dismiss the notion and fear that the party looked down on people from the north, which had been the stock in trade of the NDC.
Mr Dibu-Dong commended the party for a successful primaries which culminated in the election of Nana Akufo-Addo as the flag bearer, and urged all supporters and sympathisers to form a united front in the fight to recapture power in 2012.
He congratulated Nana Akufo-Addo for being elected to lead the party in the next election which would hopefully bring the party to power again.
He also called on the losing aspirants to pool resources together to ensure that the NPP’s message of hope would permeate all parts of the country.
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