Ofori-Kuragu pledges allegiance to NPP

Page 17, 11/01/12
Story: Emmanuel Adu-Gyamerah
THE Independent Member of Parliament (MP) for Bosome-Freho, Nana Yaw Ofori-Kuragu has pledged his unflinching allegiance to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and promised to work hard to enable the party’s Presidential candidate, Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo to double his votes in the area during the 2012 general elections.
He said issues that pushed him to go independent during the 2008 general election had now being solved and called for total unity among the rank and file of the party to enable the NPP continue to chalk more success in the constituency.
Speaking to the Daily Graphic, Nana Ofori-Kuragu explained that since he declared his intension to stand on the ticket of the party once again, he had received the needed support and expressed the hope that “we will continue to work together to fight our common opponent, the NDC”.
He said at a recent get-together he organized for the constituency executives of the NPP and some opinion leaders, it was clear that the party was now united and poised to win more votes than ever during the 2012 general elections.
Nana Ofori-Kuragu said “we are however not going to be complacent but go the extra mile to ensure a total victory”.
Hed stated that his two terms had been successful explaining that the elevation of the constituency to a district status had been accompanied by a lot of development projects to uplift the living standards of the people.
Nana Ofori-Kuragu promised to use his third term in office, if given the nod, to fight for the establishment of a second senior secondary school to be located at the Lake Bosomtwe side of the district.
On electrification, the MP said efforts would be made to ensure that communities without electricity were hooked to the national grid.
Nana Ofori-Kuragu, who won the seat in 2004 on the ticket of the NPP, stood as an independent candidate in 2008 and won.
As an independent candidate in 2008, he used the cutlass as his symbol but campaigned for the NPP Presidential candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo and chose to belong to the Minority side in the present Parliament.
He is one of the three independent MPs in the Minority side, the other two being Mr Joe Osei-Wusu (Bekwai) and Mr Seth Adjei-Baah