Unity is essential for victory in 2012 - Kufuor
By Awudu Salami Sule,
Ghanadot
Accra, July 31, Ghanadot - Former
President John Agyekum Kuffour has urged the rank and file
of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to remain united for the
party to wrestle power from the NDC
in the 2012 general elections.
He also entreated the party to ensure transparency in the
selection of candidates to lead the party.
"As we demand free and fair elections from the Electoral
Commission let us do it right among our ranks so that when
we pick our candidates, we will support them to win the 2012
elections", he said.
President Kufour who was addressing the Ferdinand Ayim
Memorial Lecture in Accra yesterday
said, it was only unity that would change the
fortunes of the party by winning the 2012 elections.
"Let us keep away from the things that divide us and respect
each other", he advised.
According to President Kufour, the NPP lost the 2008 general
elections because it was divided and their votes got split.
He said Ghanaians needed the NPP back to power and therefore
urged the party leadership to fight hard to bring the party
back to power.
'The youth of the party must study the tradition of the
party and work diligently for the party and avoid all
sycophantic attitudes", ex-President Kufour advised the
youth.
In a related development, the 2008 Presidential candidate of
the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo
has revealed that the flagbearership contest for election
2012 would not create any problems for the party.
Some political analysts say the relationship between Nana
Addo and his closest contender at the last 2007
flagbearership race, Mr Alan Kyeremanteng was frosty and has
the tendency to cause the disintegration of the party should
the two of them contest the presidential candidacy of the
party again.
But Nana Addo in an interview with the media refuted the
suggesting, arguing that competition has always made the NPP
better and competition between him and Alan could not divide
the party.
Ghanadot
