Mr Charles Biney, Co-ordinator of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) branch in Dallas, United States of America, has urged the youth to vote for Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the party's presidential candidate to safeguard their destiny.

Mr Biney gave the advice at the launch of a youth group called "Common People for Nana" in the Ablekuma South Constituency in Accra on Tuesday.

The group is to educate the electorate, especially their peers in the constituency on the need to vote for Nana Akufo-Addo in the forthcoming presidential run-off on December 28, 2008. He said; "A vote for Nana Akufo-Addo is a vote for progress and a vote for a brighter future".

Mr Biney said the presidential candidate was an independent-minded human rights and pro-democracy advocate, who had to fight hard through the years to attain the respect, leadership, and unity of the party. He said NPP's policy had been to liberate the energies of Ghanaians with the right to life, freedom and justice. "The youth should make a choice that will immensely impact the war against diseases and poverty, achievement of social justice for every Ghanaian irrespective of religion, creed or ethnicity, the pursuance of a development agenda that was broad based, inclusive and sustainable,'' Mr Biney said.

"Let's run tirelessly and claim the golden trophy of peace, love, jobs, quality education, rule of law, freedom and justice, affordable healthcare and sustained economic growth for our generation and posterity," the co-ordinator said.

He said the good people of Ghana today were politically, economically and socially conscious and they would make a choice that would enable them to take their future into their own hands. Mr Biney said; "The choice that Ghanaians would make on December 28, would determine whether the clouds of darkness which encircled the country in the 80's and 90's had gone," adding that "we need to be extremely vigilant and pray for peace in the country during and after the run-off."

He called on human rights and pro-democracy groups throughout the world to focus their attention on Ghana. 17 Dec. 08