The Tafo Pankrono Constituency of the New
Patriotic Party (NPP) in Kumasi is working assiduously to increase the
percentage of votes snared in the 2012 general election to 80, Member of
Parliament (MP), Dr Anthony Akoto Osei has said.According to him, this
is to ensure total victory for the party’s presidential candidate, Nana Addo
Dankwa Akufo-Addo who has been tipped by many observers to win this year’s
presidential election.
In the last election, the NPP garnered 42,997
votes, representing 73.83 percent, as against 15,038 of the votes (25.83
percent) secured by the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the
presidential election, with PPP, CPP, PNC, and other parties sharing the
remaining percentage.
For the parliamentary election, Dr. Akoto Osei of
the NPP obtained 43,561 votes (75.79 percent), Memuna Kabore Abu-Bakr of NDC
secured 13,454 votes (23.41 percent), whilst Issah Abdul Salam of CPP and Faruk
Muhammed Tankoh of PNC managed to bag home 314 (0.55 percent) and 149 (0.26
percent) respectively.
Speaking to DAILY GUIDE during a health walk
exercise in the constituency to kick start the NPP’s campaign, Dr. Anthony Akoto
Osei disclosed that the party’s leadership in the constituency was working
around the clock to achieve 80 percent target of the valid votes to be cast in
this year’s election.
He said the party’s track record coupled with
developmental activities undertaken by himself as MP would be used as a
bargaining chip to solicit votes throughout the planned house-to-house campaign
programme.
The MP asserted that football gala games had been penciled to
open up the campaign proper as part of the strategies to activate structures of
the party for the course. |
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