We’r The ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) has said it will be magnanimous enough to allow the largest opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) win one seat in the Volta Region in the impending December 7 Parliamentary election.
According to the party,
this charitable gesture will not be given on a silver platter but will
only be possible if the NPP put in hard work during the crucial polls.
The
NPP under the current Fourth Republic won a seat in the Volta Region
for the first time in 2004 election, with Joseph Kwaku Nayan emerging as
the Member of Parliament for Nkwanta North in a region which is the
stronghold of the NDC.
The NPP flagbearer, Nana
Akufo-Addo who’s currently in the Volta Region begun his 5-day campaign
tour of the area on Monday, October 24. It is the 2nd time this year
that the three-time Presidential candidate is touring the region for
which the NPP has set an agenda of capturing at least 3 seats in
parliament and 30% of the popular vote.
But the
Volta Regional Secretary of the NDC, Simon Amegashie Viglo in an
interview on Asempa FM stated that the NPP’s projection will remain a
dream as it is practicably impossible.
“If you
say you are increasing it must reflect in the seat you have. NDC we are
increasing in Ashanti Region which is the NPP’s stronghold, we have four
seats over there and we had about 600000 votes in the last election and
we say we want to increase it to 1000000 votes, they are saying they
want 30%, in the previous election they had 12.4 % so they want more
than double of that percentage in a region they don’t even have a seat. I
don’t think it’s a realistic forecast, we are not worried about it
because we think the forecast is arithmetically poor.”
He
added: “If the NPP had said they were aiming at some 15% we would have
said it was realistic because from 12.4% to 15% will sound a bit realist
but the 30% which is more than 100% increase in a region where they
don’t have any seat. Even at a time they were united as a party they
made 12.4%, today as I speak to you the party is divided, they don’t
have a chairman, no General Secretary, the party is not holding even in
its stronghold and you think you can get more votes in a place where you
don’t have any sympathies?
Simon Amegashie
Viglo continued: “Our prayer for them is that they should do better, at
least they should get one seat…because of democracy we are ready to
concede one seat to them in the region if they work hard, but if they
don’t, the little they have will be taken away from them. They used to
have Nkwanta North seat, but we took it from them because they were
making too much noise, the place they could win is Nkwanta North but now
it’s a no go area for them, so which one are they going to win, Keta,
Anglo, Ho or where? Even for the Akan seat it will be a big battle for
the NPP to win.”
e ready to ‘dash’ NPP One Volta Region Seat – NDC
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