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Atta Mills
campaigns door-to-door in Kumasi
Kumasi, June 20, Ghanadot/GNA –
Thousands of enthusiastic supporters of the NDC in the Suame
Magazine and its surrounding communities in the Kumasi
metropolis on Friday offered a tumultuous welcome to their
Flag bearer, Professor John Evans Atta Mills and his running
mate, Mr. John Dramani Mahama, when they visited the largest
auto-mechanic industrial centre in West Africa.
The supporters, clad in party T-shirts and other
paraphernalia, also carried NDC placards and banners adorned
with posters of the Flag bearer and
the running mate amidst drumming and dancing.
The visit to the Suame Magazine was to herald the three-day
door-to-door campaign of Professor Atta Mills to Kumasi to
galvanise support for the party towards the 2008 general
elections.
Professor Atta Mills, who was accompanied by some leading
members of the party, including the General Secretary, Mr.
Johnson Asiedu-Nketiah, Mr Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, National
Organiser, among others, also visited the Ashanti Regional
Secretariat of the GPRTU and was expected to also visit some
markets in the metropolis to interact with the market women
and sell his campaign message to the people.
Mr. Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, told the Ghana News Agency in an
interview that, the decision to meet specific trade
associations and unions in the metropolis was part of a
strategy to get first hand information from them on the
problems confronting their smooth operations and discuss
with them initiatives to be taken by Professor Atta Mills to
solve some of the problems when voted into office.
He said the door-to-door campaign had proved to be an
effective means to reach out to specific groups and
individuals to interact and know their problems and discuss
how they could be solved.
Mr. Ofosu-Ampofo said the development of Suame Magazine into
a modern industrial hub was one of the priorities of
Professor Atta Mills’ government adding that, there was the
need to develop the entrepreneurial skills of the artisans
and tap their ingenuity for national development.
He said looking at the enthusiasm from which the people in
the metropolis welcomed the Flag bearer and the campaign
team and the firm assurances from the people, NDC was
convinced that it would break the myth that Ashanti Region
was an NPP stronghold in the 2008 elections.
Mr. Ofosu-Ampofo said the party was deepening its campaign
efforts to ensure that each group of individuals or
associations received the message of the party and vote for
it in the elections.
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