Tamale, July 21, GNA- Alhaji Boniface Abubakari Saddique, Deputy Minister of Tourism and the Modernization of the Capital City, on Saturday called on tertiary students who sympathize with the NPP to see themselves as true "Apostles'' of the party and fight to win more supporters.

He said the tertiary institutions played a vital role in the defeat of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2000 elections and they could do better by assisting the party to retain power in 2004. Alhaji Saddique was addressing the Tertiary Confederacy (TESCON) of the Tamale Polytechnic branch of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Tamale.

The seminar had the theme: "Creating Political and Economic Awareness in the New Ghanaian - the Role of the Tertiary Student." The Deputy Minister said the youth were the factors of production and that the government would not relent in its efforts to equip the youth with skills to develop their intellect.

He said the government was fighting for the future of the youth adding that the party had started a process of development to integrate the north to catch up with the rest of the country in terms of infrastructure development.

He said the NPP would ensure that "politics becomes a clean game" to enable everybody to participate in it and called on the students to be wary of politicians who would like to deceive them with the aim of scoring political points.

Mr Salifu Dramani, President of TESCON of Tamale Polytechnic, appealed to the National Executives to educate students and those at the grassroots with all completed and ongoing development projects to enable them to pass it on to party members.