MP for Tano South cautions NPP members

Page 17, Dec 1, 2009
Story: Emmanuel Adu-Gyamerah

THE Member of Parliament (MP) for Tano South in the Brong Ahafo Region, Mr Andrew Adjei-Yeboah, has cautioned members of the New Patriotic Party against petty internal squabbles and the tendency to clash over personalities in the party.
He said it would be better for members of the party to learn lessons from the results of the 2008 elections and make amends to enable the NPP to recapture power in the 2012 general elections.
“Although Ghanaians have now come to realise the difference between the governance of the NPP and the NDC, we have to fight hard to repackage our message in order to win the hearts of Ghanaians in the next elections”, he said.
Mr Adjei-Yeboah told the Daily Graphic after supervising the Tano South Constituency elections of the NPP at Derma that although most party faithful were ready to bury their differences, there was the need for more sensitisation programmes to be organised to ensure total unity in the party.
“There should not be any bad blood between us”, he said advising that “it is only unity that can propel us back to power”.
The MP called for measures to rehabilitate roads in the constituency to enable farmers transport their produce to marketing centres.
He promised to use his GH¢20,000 share of the National Health Insurance Fund to facilitate the operation of the Community Health Improvement Programme in the constituency.
In the keenly contested elections, the incumbent, Mr Asare Antwi, retained his chairmanship position with 392 votes as against 146 obtained by his challenger, Nana Opoku Buabeng.
Mr Thomas Anhwere was elected unopposed as the First Vice-Chairman while Nana Opoku was elected as the Second Vice-Chairman with Mr Kofi Amo Amoako being elected unopposed as the Secretary.
Mr Kwabena Adjei, alias Flash, was elected as the constituency’s Organiser, while Mr Abdul Karim won the contest for the constituency Youth Organiser position.