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Jake heads NPP Elections 2008 campaign team
Accra, March 13, Ghanadot/GNA – The two-term campaign
manager of President John Agyekum Kufuor (Elections 2000 and
2004) Mr. Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey was
on Thursday named to lead a 23-member campaign team for the
ruling New Patriotic Party.
Dr Kofi Konadu Apraku was named as the Campaign Director; Mr
Roland Saka Deputy in- Charge of the Northern Sector and Ms
Sophia Horner-Sam Deputy in charge of the Southern sector.
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, NPP Flag bearer for Elections
2008 announced the team at his premier press conference
since the December 2007 Special National Delegates Congress
which elected him.
Apart from the large contingent of journalists who provided
coverage at the NPP headquarters, the Vice President Alhaji
Aliu Mahama, NPP Members of Parliament, Ministers of State,
Presidential Spokesman, Mr Andrew Awuni, National and
Regional Executives of the party also attended.
The 23-member campaign team includes most of the
personalities who contested the NPP Flag bearership race in
December 2007 and lost to Nana Akufo-Addo during the party’s
Special National Delegates Congress.
The members are: eight Chairpersons of Specialized
Committees of the party namely: Mr Dan Botwe in-Charge of
Electoral Affairs; Dr Arthur Kennedy in-Charge of
Communications; Mr Hackman Owusu-Agyeman, for Fund Raising;
Mr Alan Kyeremanten for Identifiable Groups; Dr Kwame
Addo-Kufuor for Security and Mr Felix Owusu-Adjepong
in-charge of Traditional Affairs.
The rest are: Mr Yaw Osafo Maafo and Ms Mawusi Awitty, Hajia
Rukia Ahmed; Dr Owusu Afriyie-Akoto in-charge of Manifesto;
Mr Victor Newman in-charge of Research; Mr Peter Mac Manu,
National Chairman; Nana Ohene Ntow; General Secretary.
Others are: the national organizer; the national women’s
organizer; the national youth organizer.
Mr Mac-Manu heads the Campaign Advisory Board, which
includes; Nana Akufo-Addo; Mr A. K. Deku, Acting Chairman of
NPP Council of Elders; Mr Kwadwo Mpiani, Minister for
Presidential Affairs; Nana Ohene Ntow, General Secretary;
Mrs Agnes Okudzeto and Alhaji Abdul Rahman Musa; National
Vice Chairpersons.
According to the NPP Flag bearer, the mandate of the
Elections 2008 Campaign Team would work in conjunction with
the regional, constituency and polling station executives of
the party to pursue the all important agenda of total
victory.
“Let me emphasise that all party members and activists are
important parts of our efforts…as we know well our victories
have come from the efforts of many unsung heroes.
“We need the energy of every party member and dare I say,
patriotic Ghanaians to ensure we retain in office the only
party with a viable project for this country’s development
in freedom and her people’s prosperity,” Nana Akufo Addo
stated.
GNA
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