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NPP No Shaking! We shall be back - Declares Nana Akufo-Addo
Accra, May 26, Ghanadot/GNA – “NPP! No
shaking! We shall be back,” declared Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo,
Election 2008 Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party
(NPP), on Tuesday stressing that in spite of the “intimidation”
of the ruling Government the Party would grow from strength to
strength and capture power in 2012 to move Ghana forward.
He said the Government of the National Democratic Congress (NDC)
had spent the last four months intimidating innocent citizens
and political opponents.
“We have seen attacks on NPP members in several parts of the
country including Agbobloshie; Kumasi and Tamale,” he said,
adding that the country had experienced arson attacks in Nyihini,
Lameshegu, Worizehi, Choggu and Gumbihini.
“All the 27 properties that were attacked belong to NPP members.
Not a single one belong to an NDC member….No attempt has been
made by the State to assist the innocent victims, numbering
about 800, who had their homes and belongings destroyed,” Nana
Akufo-Addo said.
Nana Akufo-Addo stated this at a party forum organized to review
the current situation in the country, spell out strategies for
reorganizing the Party and reinvigorate the supporters after the
defeat of the Party in the last elections.
The forum was attended by leading NPP members, including
National Chairman and Leader of NPP, Mr Peter Mac Manu; General
Secretary, Nana Ohene Ntow; the Minority Leader, Mr Osei-Kyei
Mensah-Bonsu; Second Deputy Speaker, Professor Mike Ocquaye;
Former Ministers of State, Members of Parliament; National and
Regional Executives of NPP as well as a large number of
supporters.
Nana Akufo-Addo said those affected by the violence were first
and foremost, Ghanaians, whatever their political colours, and
called on the law enforcement agencies to investigate and bring
to book the perpetrators of these acts of violence.
He said “the apparent revival of the idea of the
‘democratization of violence’ in our politics is unwelcome and
unacceptable”.
He said the NPP Leadership had worked hard to restrain its
supporters from reacting to these acts of intimidation and
provocation. However, “I am very concerned that sooner or later,
militants on our side convinced that the State cannot or will
not protect them, may take measures to protect their interest,
themselves and their loved ones.
“Events will then be out of control, driving all of us towards a
point of no return...it is against this background that I am
extremely concerned about the creeping threats to the peace
process in Dagbon, which appeared to be with the active
connivance of the State machinery.”
Nana Akufo-Addo, therefore, called on the Government to adhere
to the terms agreed under the Roadmap to Peace in Dagbon as
fashioned by the three eminent chiefs, the Asantehene, the Na
Yiri and the Yagbon Wura.
“The President, the father of the nation, should show the same
even-handedness in the enforcement of the roadmap that his
predecessor, Former President John Agyekum Kufuor, showed even
at the risk of jeopardizing his Party’s traditional support base
in Dagbon. That is the hallmark of statesmanship,” he stated.
Nana Akufo-Addo appealed to President John Evans Atta Mills, the
ruling NDC, the opposition political parties and civil society
to work together to make Ghana peaceful and safe to preserve the
country’s democratic development.
GNA
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