Politics of Tuesday, 25 April 2006

Source: GNA

NDC to win Sissala East and West District in 2008

Tumu (UW/R), April 25, GNA - The Sissala East Youth Wing of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Monday promised to step up their organizational activities in order to win massively in both the Presidential and Parliamentary elections in 2008.

As a result, they have appealed to all members of the party and sympathizers to bury their differences and forge ahead for a landslide victory in the 2008 general elections.

Mr Alhassan Batong, Youth Organiser of the party, who gave the promise in a press briefing on their activities said, most of the people, who voted for the two candidates of the People's National Convention (PNC) in the 2004 general elections had regretted for doing so.

"As I am speaking to you now, the two PNC Parliamentarians for both Sissala East and West constituencies have not lived up to their campaign promises, which we shall capitalize on for our next campaigns" Mr Batong also urged party members to ignore people, who allegedly deserted the NDC for the newly formed Democratic Freedom Party (DFP), as they could not help the country out of its economic doldrums".

"Although we are enjoying a democratic dispensation in the country, some indigenous people in the Sissala land try to tug people, who are not PNC as political deviants, which is not healthy enough" Mr Batong further appealed to the electorate in the two constituencies to return the NDC back into power, since that was the only political party that could salvage them from the political and economic woes of the country.

He said the Members of Parliament for the Sissala East and West Constituencies had disappointed the people and it would therefore be an embarrassment for them, if they renewed their desire to contest in the 2008 elections.

"We want the MPs to at least come out and point to us what they have done in fulfilment of their campaign promises." The youth organizer also accused the NPP government of not living up to their task and urged them to buck up in order not to face humiliation.

"At least people have now realized that the NDC during their days did so well and on their return can do better than what the NPP is doing now", he concluded.