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Alhaji Moctar Bamba, National Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), on Thursday said that although the National Democratic Congress (NDC) could be accused of corruption, that could not guarantee easy victory for the NPP in Election 2012. He, therefore, appealed to NPP members and supporters to seriously campaign for the 2012 General Election to enable the party to wrest power from the NDC. Alhaji Bamba gave the advice at the inauguration of an 11-member NPP campaign team led by Mr Eric Crentril for the Abossey Okai Spare Parts Dealers area in the Ablekuma Central Constituency in Accra on Friday. He said �we need to be committed and hard working to enable us march them boot for boot in house-to-house campaigning.� Alhaji Bamba reminded Ghanaians that immediately former President John Agyekum Kufuor took over the administration of the country in 2000, he went to Nigeria to negotiate for the purchase of fuel, and during the former President�s tenure of office there was no shortage of the commodity in the country. Alhaji Bamba said the Kufuor administration had introduced interventions including the National Health Insurance Scheme, Metro Mass Transport, School Feeding Programme and the Capitation Grant to improve the living conditions of the people. Mr Ebenezer Nartey, NPP parliamentary candidate for the constituency, said the President John Evana Atta Mills Government has totally failed Ghanaians. He said the Ablekuma Central Constituency has been neglected for far too long in terms of infrastructure development such roads and schools and that it was time for NPP to take away the seat from the NDC. �It is not that the NPP is desperate for power but the direction that the NDC leading the country is what Ghanaians do not want. We should all get involved in the campaign to win power from the NDC because where the country is heading towards is dangerous,� Mr Nartey stressed. He complained that the people were suffering because their businesses were collapsing and they could not pay their children�s school fees, water and electricity bills, and rent. Mr Nartey called on the people to register if the voters� register was opened to enable them to exercise their franchise. The National Co-ordinator for Narasa Clubs of the NPP, Alhaji Abubakar Sulemana, advised NPP supporters to take solace that the party went into opposition for Ghanaians to know the difference between good governance and bad governance. He asked NPP campaign teams to go into the trenches with humility and compassion, devoid of insults to win votes for the party in Election 2012.