Accra, May 13, GNA - Mr. Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, National Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) left Accra here on Tuesday for Toronto, Canada and the USA for 10 days tour during which he would inaugurate NDC branches there.

He told newsmen in a pre-departure interview that he would inaugurate the Toronto branch of the NDC on Saturday May 17th and proceed to inaugurate that of the Tri-State, which is Washington, Virgina and Maryland on May 24 this year.

Mr Ofosu-Ampofo said the visit would afford him the opportunity to organize capacity building meetings with members of the NDC branches in those states and to brief them "on the successful and captivating launching of the party's campaign during which Professor Evans Attah Mills fleagbearer of NDC introduced his running mate John Dramani Mahama." He said he would urge the overseas members to support the party to sustain the tempo of NDC' campaign to ensure that victory smiled at them during and after Election 2008. He would explain to them why the party has adopted some policy decisions and why it was not going to engage in "comparing of records campaign" and why the party would like to tackle issues based on scientific analysis.

Mr. Ofosu-Ampofo said, though Ghanaians were eagerly expecting the NDC to assume the reigns of power to give them relief from their current predicaments the party would all the same need to organize and carry its messages to the people with a the bottom to top approach where decisions would be that of the collective. The party, he said, would not deviate from its social democratic philosophy which was the surest means to ensure the faster and total development of the country.