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NPP will win
Hohoe North Parliamentary seat in 2008 elections- Aspirant
Hohoe, July 2, GNA-Dr Kofi Konadu Apraku, a Presidential
aspirant of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Sunday said
that politics was the only magic wand to transform
drastically the development fortunes of the Volta Region
into economic stardom.
"If a rapid development of the region was to be envisaged,
then it should be tied against politics for socio-economic
development," he stressed.
Dr. Apraku was addressing the fundraising lunch of the Hohoe-North
Constituency of the NPP, which yielded over 20,000 Ghana
Cedis (200,000,000 cedis) under the theme, "Mobilizing
Resources for Agenda 2008".
He said the new confidence and enthusiasm of the party in
the region would bring in its wake positive desires but was
quick to ask party supporters to remain united and shun
tendencies that would sow discord and acrimony.
Dr. Apraku pledged his commitment towards having a good
working relationship with the region when elected.
Mr. Raymond Okudzeto, National Patron of NPP said a new
culture towards fundraising was emerging in the region,
which was a positive sign that the people were poised for an
accelerated development, which could only manifest through
the toil of the indigenes.
He blamed the region's plight on lack of advertisement on
the endowments and potentials of the region to the outside
world and called on all to change their mindsets towards
hardwork.
Mr. Kenwuud Nuworsu, Volta Regional Chairman of the NPP said
though history was lost in the Hohoe North constituency as a
stronghold of the party, government continued to demonstrate
faith in the area by undertaking development projects
irrespective of this predicament.
He said the Constituency was among the three-top seats
within grasp by the NPP and exhorted party stalwarts in the
area to present a common front in order to unleash political
venom to send their opponents into oblivion.
Mr. Nuworsu pledged the Party's unflinching support to the
Constituency in all aspects saying such fundraising events
were self-help initiatives.
Dr Patrick Agbesinyale, Chairman of the Constituency Finance
Committee said NPP would not relinquish political power now,
and, that should change the way politics was done in the
region stressing that, "donations would go a long way to
prove a point, come 2008".
Mr. Abdallah Mohamed Sadiq, Hohoe North Constituency
Chairman said a target of 50,000 Ghana Cedis has been
earmarked as one of the strategies to re-engineer plans to
wrest power from the National Democratic Congress, which had
won the Parliamentary seat since 1992.
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