The 2012 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, left Ghana on Sunday, with his wife Rebecca, to the United Kingdom for a short break.

Nana Addo wishes to use this opportunity to call on his party, the NPP, to be united and strong for the battle ahead, as he remains convinced that Ghana's progress and the Ghanaian people's prosperity depends largely on an NPP government.

He also requests his supporters and sympathisers to remember him in their prayers as he takes what he has described himself as a "political time out". In his words, "the battle continues to be the Lord's".

He is expected to announce his political future on his return.

……signed……. Herbert Krapa Aide