“This talk of the NPP being anti-northerners is simply not true. When you go into the history books, all the leaders of the tradition, from which the NPP emerged, are northerners. The tradition we belong to is called the Danquah-Dombo-Busia tradition. Dombo hailed from the north. Jato Kaleo, Abaayifa Karbo, Yakubu Tali, B.K Adama, Imoro Salifu, C.K. Tedam, were all northerners who started our party,” said flagbearer of the NPP Nana Akufo-Addo.
While addressing a meeting of Muslim clerics and chiefs of settler communities at Derma, in the Tano South constituency in the Brong Ahafo Region, on Sunday, February 21, Nana Addo siad “In my attempts at the presidency, I have stuck with my running mate, Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, who comes from Walewale and is also a Muslim,” Mr Akufo-Addo noted, adding: “President Kufuor, before he won the 2000 election, and during the entire tenure of office, chose a running mate from the north, in the person of the late Alhaji Aliu Mahama, who hailed from Yendi. So, if somebody says the NPP hates northerners and Moslems, it can never be true. The records do not show that.”
Accompanied by national and regional party stalwarts, Nana Akufo-Addo explained that the NPP, traditionally, has not done well electorally in settler communities across the country, largely because of the deliberate tagging of the NPP as an “anti-Northern” party by political opponents.
Thus, the NPP, according to Nana Akufo-Addo, has now decided to aggressively campaign in all settler communities across the country, so as to dispel this false notion, with barely 8 months to holding of the November elections.
Nana Akufo-Addo told the Chiefs that “this type of anti-NPP sentiments only surface during elections,” adding that “when there are no elections, we live in this country peacefully and harmoniously. These are done purely for electoral advantage.”
He therefore urged them to ignore this type of politicking, but rather vote for candidates and political parties whose sole aim in office will be to better the lives of Ghanaians, through the institution of effective policies.
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