The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has visited the party’s parliamentary candidate for the Cape Coast North constituency, Mrs. Barbara Asher Ayisi.

He encouraged her to remain firm and resolute despite the attempt on her life, the incident which took place on Saturday, February 13.

Nana Akufo-Addo, whilst making his way from the Western region after a four-day tour of the region, stopped over at the residence of the NPP parliamentary candidate, in Abora, to assess at firsthand the extent of damage caused by the attacker to property.

Accompanied by the acting National Chairman of the party, Mr. Freddie Blay, the NPP flagbearer was thankful to the Almighty that no harm had befallen her, and her assailant was in the custody of the Police. Nana Akufo-Addo called for a swift resolution of the matter by the law enforcement agencies.

Barbara Ayisi thanked Nana Akufo-Addo for the gesture, assuring him, the leadership of the party, as well as members of the NPP in her constituency of her determination to wrestle the seat from the NDC, stressing that “I am not perturbed by this cowardly attack.”

Recounting the ordeal to the NPP flagbearer, Mrs. Barbara Ayisi explained that “I was getting ready for my school’s speech and prize giving day, when I heard a noise outside. So I came out and saw a struggle between a strange man and my driver. According to my driver, the man wanted to come inside because he said he wanted to see the NPP MP. But the driver managed to push him away and we locked the gate.”

The attacker, according to the NPP Cape Coast North parliamentary candidate, managed to scale the wall into the house, where he smashed the windscreen of her campaign vehicle, and tore an NPP flag, and screaming, in Fante, “Where is the NPP MP?”

Barbara Ayisi noted that it the effort of one brave man to overpower the suspect before the police came in.

“I must commend one gentleman by the name Abdul Hussein, who gathered courage and jumped into the house and he had a face to face fight with him; and then he managed to take the knife and the hammer and other things from him. The gates were opened and people came in to help and then he was handed over to the police when they came in,” she added.