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A youth activist of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Kwahu Afram Plains South Constituency, Mr. Basil Gbeli Daabere, has stated that only a Voltarian can win the seat in the above mentioned constituency for the party.

He has, therefore, called on the delegates of the party to consider giving the opportunity to someone from the Volta Region, who is also a dye-in-the-wool NPP member to lead the party in the 2016 parliamentary elections.

According to him, painstaking research conducted in the area had shown that the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) had monopolised the parliamentary seat because of the Ewe factor – meaning the area is mostly dominated by people from the Volta Region.

He explained that since 1992, the NDC has used a monotonous campaign strategy that the NPP is an Akan party, which only believes in its own, whilst the NDC, on the other hand, embraces everybody without due regard to one’s ethnic group, to win the parliamentary seat.

Mr. Daabere indicated that this propaganda strategy of the NDC, to a large extent, has influenced the Ewe community, who form the majority of the population in the area, to continuously vote for the NDC.

He hinted that even though the NDC has succeeded in influencing people in the area to continuously vote for its MPs since 1992, the people continue to wallow in abject poverty, an indication that the party had nothing to offer them.

He continued that Kwahu Afram Plains, which is a large community and heterogeneously composed, is severely deprived.
Mr. Daabere disclosed that prosperous local private business enterprises are being threatened by persistent armed robbery attacks, whilst traders who often come from far places to buy foodstuffs in the area quail at the prospect of being robbed.

The NPP activist mentioned that the area needs both private interventions and politically initiated projects for general social economic development, which can be provided by the NPP.

To him, the NDC MPs who have represented the area in Parliament were bereft of ideas to transform the economic hardship afflicting the average inhabitant of the constituency into improving upon their living standard.

He argued that the prevailing situation in the area calls for salvage with constructive political strategies that would drown the old cheap propaganda and total collapse of the NDC past campaign machinery.

He, however, warned that this can only be done when the NPP elects a Voltarian to lead the party in the upcoming elections, a situation that would not only woo members of the Ewe community, but would also take away the notion that the NPP is an Akan party.