Nana Addo Courts Media

Posted: Daily Guide |Tuesday, 20 April 2010

By Charles Takyi-Boadu
LEADING contender of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) flag-bearership race and 2008 Presidential Candidate of the party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, is set to hold a meeting with selected journalists tomorrow.

The meeting, which is scheduled to take place at his Nima residence in Accra, is to enable him interact with the media.

A statement issued in Accra yesterday and signed by his Head of Communications, Mustapha Hamid said, “He will use this meeting with journalists to announce officially to the nation his decision to contest for the presidential nomination of the New Patriotic Party on August 7, 2010 and ultimately for the Presidency of the Republic in Election 2012” .

Member of Parliament for Bimbilla and leading member of the Victory-2012 campaign team, Dominic Aduna Bingab Nitiwul, said during his interaction with the media this Wednesday, Nana will give a brief speech on his political future and the future direction of Ghana.

On that same day, the presidential hopeful will deliver a speech at the Mensah Sarbah Hall at the University of Ghana, Legon, at 6pm.

The speech is expected to focus on education, job creation and the future of the Ghanaian youth.

Nana Addo will then hit the road running with his national campaign tour on Thursday, with Kwanyako in the Central Region as his first stop.

Mr. Nitiwul explained that on Thursday, “Nana will officially kick-start his campaign tour to meet every single one of the about 115,000 delegates across the country in their various constituencies”.

He is thus scheduled to tour three constituencies the same day; Agona East, Agona West and Gomoa West.

On why Nana Addo is running again, the MP for Bimbilla said that “Nana Addo since January, 2009 has maintained an office where he interacts with an average of 300 Ghanaians a day and has taken notice of their sentiments”.

Aside that, he said, Nana Addo has also consulted widely with people within and outside the party, and it is the sentiments gathered from these interactions, coupled with the mismanagement of the country by the Mills-Mahama led administration that has influenced his decision to run again.

“It is clear that Ghanaians are looking for a man of vision, courage, wisdom, uprightness and integrity, and someone who can fix the economy with a sense of urgency as well as create jobs for the youth,” he stated.

The Bimbilla MP said that “Nana Addo will bring a message of hope and unity and would remind the delegates that NPP run an election and got 49.77% of the votes, but the party was seeking a third term mandate and we all know how difficult this is all over the world and so the change happened”.

“But today we have all realized that the change was a bad one, it has not brought hope to Ghanaians, it has not brought development to Ghanaians and the change has not changed anybody’s life for the better,” he stressed.

For this reason, he noted, Nana will be telling delegates of the party to respond to the cries of Ghanaians by making him the flag-bearer of the NPP, as he is sure to win the presidency in 2012 and will restore confidence in Ghanaians by expanding the economy, creating jobs, improving and expanding the NHIS and providing potable water and constant supply of electricity to their homes and factories.

“Nana Addo will be reminding the delegates that he personally fought for the expansion of the electoral college of the NPP with his resources and time and this has empowered them to be the people who would eventually elect the presidential candidate of the party.

He would therefore empower the grassroots when he eventually becomes president,” he concluded.