The New Patriotic Party’s flagship polling
station campaign, ‘Adopt a polling station’ is gathering momentum as more people
continue to donate money and food items to the campaign.With regional
launches held in Western, Central, Ashanti and Eastern, the ‘Adopt a polling
station’ campaign has seen ordinary people contributing to safeguard the party’s
votes at the polling station.
The ‘Adopt A Polling Station’ campaign
seeks to, among other things, create awareness on the need for polling station
agents and officials to be resourced during elections.
At the launch of
the campaign in Koforidua over the weekend, the Campaign Manager, Mr. Mac Manu
said the party is greatly concerned about the activities at the various polling
stations, and they are leaving no stone unturned to ensure that party agents are
properly resourced during the elections.
He allayed fears that, the party
can’t protect the votes at the polling station, and said the ‘adopt a polling
station’ campaign is one of several ways the party is using to protect votes at
the polling station level.
“Nobody should be afraid, some people are
inquiring from me, the fact that NDC may rig the election or may not cede power
should they lose, let me assure you, that is not going to happen,” he said.
He advised President Mahama to take a cue from what happened to Lauren
Gbabgo when he refused to accept defeat.
“If you look around Ivory Coast
what happened to him [Gbagbo] when he refused to cede power, his wife as well as
his special aide who was causing trouble, are all languishing in prisons, so the
NDC and John Mahama must take a lesson from that to cede power to guarantee
peace in the country,” he said.
According to Mac Manu, the responsibility
is on party members and sympathisers to ‘adopt a polling’ station and make it
their own.
Since the launch of ‘Adopt a polling station’ campaign about a
month ago, he said, “ the enthusiasm has been good, we need more people, we need
to protect the over 28,000 polling stations and if we do that, Mahama can never
say he won’t accept defeat, he will go.”
The Director-In-Charge of
National Fundraising Team of the opposition NPP, Ken Ofori-Atta, in his
addressed urged party supporters not to sit on the fence because victory is
near.
He said, the ‘Adopt a polling station’ campaign is aimed at
ensuring that adequate resources are generated both in cash and in kind to
support polling station agents that would be deployed to the various polling
stations across the country to remedy some loopholes that were created in their
duties in the 2012 elections which provided opportunities for irregularities in
the election.
At the Koforidua launch, market women donated bags of rice
and other food items to support the campaign. Many also bought the ‘adopt a
polling station’ coupons.
Party sympathizers and members can donate any
amount of money via mobile money on 0548407629 or through bank via an account it
has at the Kojo Thompson Road Branch of Zenith Bank under the name ‘I am for
Nana Foundation’ with the account 6010614929.
‘Adopt-A-Polling Station’
forms have also been deposited at the various NPP offices across the country
with soft copies available
on www.iamfornana.com/adopt.
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