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Akufo-Addo campaign team reacts to
Mahama's performance story
Accra, July 11, Ghanadot/GNA - The Akufo-Addo
Campaign Team says the New Patriotic Party (NPP)
Presidential Candidate never stated that Mr John Mahama,
Member of Parliament (MP) for Bole-Bamboi did nothing for
the area as an MP.
According to a rejoinder sent to GNA, the Campaign Team
said: "We wish to state that the NPP Presidential Candidate
never stated that John Mahama, MP, did nothing for the area
as an MP.
"What Nana Akufo-Addo said was that in the period that John
Mahama, Member of Parliament for Bole-Bamboi, and his Party
were in power, the Bole-Bamboi road was not done.
"He added that in our time in office, we have done the road.
And this is a statement of fact. It is important to state
that the Bole-Bamboi road that links the Southern Sector of
Ghana to the Northern Parts had been a major concern for the
people of the Three Regions for the several years that John
Mahama's NDC was in power," the Campaign Team stated.
The Ghana News Agency, however, stands by the original story
because the rhetorical question - 'what has he done for
you'? - Can be interpreted in various ways.
The GNA had reported: "Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Flag
Bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has pleaded with
the people of the North to stop the "one-way-voting" and
vote to retain the NPP for continuity.
"He said since 1992, people in the North had refused to vote
for the NPP saying: "Times have changed and you need to move
with it and change your entrenched positions and vote for me
in the December elections to bring development to your
doorstep no matter where you are coming from."
"Nana Akufo-Addo made the appeal when he made whistle stops
at some communities at the entry points and along the route
of Bamboi in the Northern Region to the Upper West Region
where he would begin a four-day official tour of his 22-day
tour of the three Northern Regions.
"The communities visited were; Bamboi, Mandari, Bole, Sawla,
Tuna and Kalba where he met with opinion leaders and party
members and explained his vision for the nation when voted
to govern the country in 2009.
"Addressing a mini rally at Mandari and Bole in the Bole-Bamboi
constituency, Nana Akuffo-Addo claimed that the National
Democratic Congress (NDC) would never come back to power
again and stressed the need for all Ghanaians including
those in the North to rally behind the NPP for a well
deserved victory in December.
"He said Mr John Dramani Mahama, running mate to Professor
John Atta Mills, NDC flagbearer, who hailed from Bole, did
nothing for the area as an MP and asked the constituents to
reject him and the NDC since he (Dramani) and the NDC never
had the interest of the area at heart.
"He said the tarring of the Bole-Bamboi trunk road, which
was now 90 per cent complete, was a testimony of NPP's
commitment to developing the constituency and integrating it
to the rest of the country.
"Nana Akufo-Addo said the NPP would make good use of the
various dams and dugouts in the Northern sector and
introduce new methods of farming and subsidize farm inputs
to farmers to transform the regions.
"Alhaji Abubakari Saddique Boniface, Minister of Water
Resources, Works and Housing, said that the NPP had already
won the December elections and advised people of the area to
be part of the victory by voting massively to retain the
government.
"Besides' Alhaji Boniface, Nana Akufo-Addo is being
accompanied by Mr Alan Kyeremanteng, member of the campaign
team of Nana Akuffo Addo, Alhaji Mustapha Ali Idris,
Northern Regional Minister, Mr Osafo Marfo, Mr Jake Obetsebi
Lamptey, all former ministers of state, Ms Gloria Akuffo and
Alhaji Moctar Bamba.
GNA
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