A group, Friends of Nana Akufo-Addo from Wenchi in the Brong Ahafo region, have started campaigning in the constituency ahead of the 2012 elections.
At a meeting held in Wenchi, the group, led by Richard Adu, mapped out a strategy to go from house to house to appeal to the conscience of the people of the constituency, to vote massively for Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
Speaking to DAILY GUIDE, Mr. Adu said this was not the time for any supporter of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to sit down and wait for the national leadership to come and campaign for Nana. According to him, every member should wake up from his or her slumber and get involved in the campaign efforts to boot out the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
According to him, the internal problems in the NDC showed that the NPP would definitely come back to power to continue with the good deeds of ex-president Kufuor.
Mr. Adu said for the past two-and-half years, the Mills administration had performed dismally and Ghanaians were the losers since people could not make ends meet. He was particular bitter about the yet-to-be kept promise of a onetime premium payment for the National Health Insurance Scheme.
In his view, all the campaign promises of the NDC in the run-up to the 2008 general elections were simply lip-service.
According to Mr. Adu, Ghanaians could not wait to welcome back the NPP because from all indications, the NDC was driving the �bus of state� into a ditch.
He said the theory propounded by Vice President Mahama, that a Yutong driver should be given coffee if not driving well, was laughable because if a driver was not good, no amount of coffee could make him a good driver.
Touching on politics of insults, Mr. Adu charged the supporters of the NPP to steer clear from such behaviour.
Mr. Adu, who distributed more than one thousand calendars bearing the pictures of Nana Akufo-Addo, said those who had been dismissed from the National Health Insurance Scheme, Zoomlion, Youth Employment Programme, NADMO and other places should campaign very hard for the NPP to come to power so that they could be re-instated in their various places of work.
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