VOTE PPP FOR JOBS

The flag bearer of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, has appealed to eligible voters in the Volta Region of Ghana to vote the PPP to power in the December polls to create jobs for the unemployed in the region and the country at large.

“There is no reason why the Volta Region should be poor; the region has many resources and its people are very hard working, they also have the land, the resources, and the human capital, what they need is a leader who can empower the region,” Dr. Nduom told gatherings in the region.

According to him, what the Volta Region needs is the missing ingredient — a proper and visionary leadership like the kind the PPP is offering — to be able to transform its vast resources for development.

Dr. Nduom, who is popularly known as ‘Edwumawura,’ was on a tour in the region to inaugurate polling station executives of the party. Among the constituencies visited by Dr. Nduom and his team included Anlo, Ave-Avenor and the Ketu South. Speaking to journalists after the tour, Dr. Nduom said he was impressed with how the party was visible and functioning effectively at the grassroots.

“These [polling station executives] are people we have mobilised at the grassroots who are willing to work with enthusiasm; I am impressed at the turnout at all the constituencies and know we can deliver if we continue to work hard…,” Dr. Nduom said.

He also promised to transform the opportunities in the region into investments that can create job avenues for the teeming unemployed in the region; “I am the best among the three top contestants for the presidency.”

At the Anlo constituency, polling station executives from the eighty-one (81) polling stations in the constituencies met the PPP standard bearer at five different locations in the constituency where they were inducted into office with a call on them to work assiduously and in a decent manner to win votes for the party. After introducing the party’s parliamentary aspirant for Anlo constituency, Francis Tamakloe, to the polling station executives, Dr. Nduom urged the twenty-one (21) representatives each from the 81 polling stations to get additional ten voters each whom they would be assured and convinced would vote for the PPP.

They were also reminded of the need to abide by the party’s policy of embarking on a clean campaign devoid of politics of insults that has characterized the nation’s body politic.

What was to be the inauguration of executives of a one hundred-and-eighty-one (181) polling stations in the Ave-Avenor constituency almost turned out to be a political rally for the party as the constituents including the aged with walking sticks gathered at Akatsi-Abor and enthusiastically mobbed the PPP team. Carrying along their party’s ID cards, the voters displayed their willingness to work hard for the election of the PPP’s Japhet Ametame, whom they claimed was the right replacement for the constituency’s Member of Parliament (MP) and first deputy speaker of Ghana’s Parliament who they say had done little for the constituency. “After serving for more than two decades as our MP, Hon. Edward Doe Adjaho has done very little for the constituency due to the usual belief that the people of this area would always vote for the NDC…but that would not be the case this time…,” 50-year-old Afi Kuwornu told this reporter.

Mr. Ametame also encouraged the gathering to help educate their fellow voters on why they should reject gifts from the MP and his campaign team as they are meant to woo them to vote to return him to Parliament. The PPP delegation arrived at Agbozome-Sukladzi in the Ketu South constituency to a rapturous welcome where polling station executives from the constituency were inducted and urged to work to win votes for the party.

Later Edwumawura officially introduced Mr. Mcmayee Davison to them as the party’s parliamentary aspirant for the constituency. He encouraged them to work hard to get more votes for the party to ensure that it wins the December 7 general elections. “You are our VVIP’s, that is why we are inaugurating you today [Friday, 21 Sept., 2012] but Davison here can become a Member of Parliament and I [Dr. Nduom] can be President only when we work to get more votes in addition to the one-one votes that we all have,” Dr. Nduom urged the people. He also communicated to media men after the tour that he was very delighted with the enthusiasm of the polling station executives and hoped that the party would surprise other competitors in the election.

…As party commits to peace Meanwhile, the PPP in a statement commemorating the International Day of Peace which fell on Friday, 21st September, has re-echoed its commitment to the peace being enjoyed in the country.

The release, signed by its national secretary, noted that “the PPP recognises the importance of peace and unity in Ghana in our bid to fashion out policies and programmes to develop our motherland.” Kofi Asamoah-Siaw on behalf of the party again stated that the PPP recognises the contributions of the United Nations for their role in the maintenance of international peace and security pledging his party’s full support to the UN, African Union, Ecowas and other international bodies involved in global peace and security.

“As we approach the elections in 2012, the PPP wishes to remind all stakeholders about the fragility of the peace we enjoy in Ghana and the threats to the enjoyment of continuous peace and unity in the country,” however hinting that the abuse of incumbency by the ruling government led by President Mahama poses a serious threat to the peace in Ghana as its creates an uneven playing field for all political parties.

The statement continued that the PPP, in consonance with its motto of "Prosperity in Peace", will conduct itself in a peaceful manner in this election year focusing only on offering solutions to the numerous problems that confront us as a nation; “We believe that focusing on competent and incorruptible leadership, we as a people can fashion out a set of policies in Education, Health Care and Job Creation that ensure prosperity in peace for all Ghanaians.”

The PPP further assured all Ghanaians that it will pursue a vigorous campaign based on issues devoid of insults and political violence “and we invite all stakeholders including civil society organisations to condemn acts that threaten the peace and security of the country.”It concluded that the party was of the firm conviction that the people of Ghana are wide awake and will vote against political parties whose conduct and utterances present a barrier to national peace and security.