The Minority Leader, Mr Alban Bagbin, has stated that there are clear indications that at next year’s elections, the NDC will win all parliamentary seats in the Upper-West and Volta regions.

Speaking at a ceremony at Nadowli, where he launched a new identity cards for the NDC, he said his party would increase its parliamentary seats in the Greater-Accra region to at least 16 and recapture several seats in the Northern Region.

“All signs, signals and prophecies point to an NDC victory in 2004. So tell all those day converts to NPP who are seeking to represent the Upper West in Parliament that they are wasting their time,” he declared.

Mr Bagbin, who is also the MP for Nadowli North, stated that after NPP’s 2000 electoral victory, the government had sponsored various expensive audits and investigations into the NDC regime but unearthed no malfeasance. He expressed the hope that when NDC recapture power the following year, the current NPP ministers would emulate the example of the NDC and stay in Ghana to defend their stewardship.

He was of the view that few NPP ministers would escape a forensic audit with clean records. “Ghanaians have compared the NPP and NDC regimes and come to the firm conviction that they were better off under the NDC. Now, the expression in vogue in Accra and other parts of the country is ‘Sankofa’, meaning let’s return to the NDC,” Mr Bagbin said.

He expressed his conviction that the NDC had done enough in the Nadowli North constituency to retain the seat as evidenced in the vast improvement in roads, infrastructure, education, agriculture, women’s development and youth issues. He called on party supporters to constantly remind voters of all the development projects which the NDC had provided during its reign.

According to him, the abysmal performance of the NPP Government had led to a situation where the other parties which had helped the ruling party win the last elections were not prepared to do business with the NPP again. The Upper-West Regional Secretary of the NDC, Mr Mathias Puozaa, applauded the work of Mr Bagbin in Parliament and called for unity among NDC members in the Nadowli-North Constituency.

“The name Nadowli is almost always in the international media. Nadowli is on the Internet all the time. Nadowli, one of the youngest districts in Ghana, is on the lips of many Ghanaians. This young district is now better known than many districts in the country. These are the fruits of Mr Bagbin’s tireless efforts over the years and especially his excellent performance as the leader of the Minority in Parliament,” Mr Puozaa said.

According to him, Mr Bagbin’s achievements had been made possible by his constituents’ support and urged them to have faith in the MP since he had risen to a position of prominence in the world and many philanthropists were ready to assist him to develop the constituency.

The NDC Regional Vice Chairman, Alhaji Braimah Seidu, assured party supporters that the party would get sufficient resources to campaign and win next year’s elections and urged them to work hard.