A former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice in the previous Kufuor-led New Patriotic Party government has lashed out at President John Evans Atta Mills and his functionaries, describing their performance as �a total disappointment.�
According to Nii Ayikoi Otoo, the gross ineptitude being exhibited by President Mills and his appointees in the management of the nation has left many people wondering about what they have been doing with the long years of experience they accumulated in the previous (P) NDC government which ruled the nation for close to 20 years.
In the view of the NPP parliamentary candidate for Krowor in the Greater Accra Region, the president and his government are executing the mandate given them by the masses without any clear focus, adding that there is no sense of urgency in the way they are handling the affairs of the nation. �He has been a total disappointment and it will be a disaster for him to have a second term. Now all well-meaning Ghanaians don�t have a choice than to support the NPP to return to power, to return the nation onto the path of real development,� he stressed.
Nii Ayikoi Otoo was addressing two separate groups of NPP supporters at the Check Point and Kingsway electoral areas in the Krowor constituency at the weekend.
He first addressed a gathering at Amagana, in the Kingsway electoral area, where many NDC supporters announced their defection to the NPP. The area was a no-go area for the NPP in the past.
Afole Otu, a.k.a C Kaloo, a former die-hard NDC activist, said a lot of NDC members in the area were disappointed in the Mills administration, hence the decision to defect to the NPP. C Kaloo also accused the MP for the area of not providing quality leadership for the people, urging the electorate in the area to support Nii Ayikoi Otoo to win the seat in the 2012 election.
At the Check Point polling station, where members of the �Zekboys� interacted with the parliamentary candidate, the people complained about the increasing underdevelopment of Nungua, compared with Teshie, blaming the situation on the absence of effective local political leadership.
They expressed confidence in the ability of the former A-G to provide a strong voice to articulate the concerns and problems confronting the people of Nungua, commending him for being the strongest advocate and mouthpiece of the people even though he not yet their MP.
Nii Ayikoi Otoo assured the people that when elected into Parliament as their representative, he would serve the interest of everybody irrespective of their political, religious or ethnic backgrounds.
�What is most important now is that let�s put the past behind us and forge ahead in unity and win the seat and also help Nana Addo to become the president so that we can all save our future and the future of the unborn generation. The kind of leadership we are witnessing at both the local and national level is not what we need. We need a more proactive, qualitative, and purposeful leadership to ensure development,� he told his audience.
The former minister urged the people to register when the biometric registration exercise begins in January, next year, to ensure that they get the opportunity to vote in the 2012 general elections.
He was optimistic that the biometric registration would help address the problems of multiple registrations and voting which had always been a normal practice in the Krowor constituency, warning that �even this time around, whether it is biometric or not we will do everything to prevent the multiple registrations and voting.�
On why he now enjoys increasing acceptance in hitherto no-go areas, the man who lost the 2008 parliamentary election as a result of �skirt and blouse� voting, had this to say: �I think the abysmal failure of the Mills administration and the MP, as well as the people�s desire to return the NPP to power, have combined with my decision to buck out of the Nungua chieftaincy affairs as a counsel for one factions to make the grounds very good for me and the NPP.�
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