Agordome (VR), Aug 28, GNA – President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has said he would not stop wooing the Volta Region and its people to his side until he is accepted.
The President is seeking the Volta Region, which has since 1992 voted massively for the National Democratic Congress, to swing this unflinching support for the NPP.
Ghana’s first President of the Fourth Republic, Jerry John Rawlings, who hails from the region is the founder of the NDC.
Addressing the Chiefs of South Tongu at a ceremony to cut the sod for work to begin on the about €85-million Keta Water Supply Rehabilitation and Expansion project at Agordome, the President said he was aware of the Region’s loyalty to the NDC.
However, he was determined to win it over for the NPP, he said.
“I’m like the suitor who is bent on marrying a beautiful woman and I’ll keep on knocking at the door until it is opened to me,” he said.
He would, therefore, relentlessly work to resolve the pressing needs of the people, including executing the water project, which would provide water to some 400,000 people of communities in the Keta Municipality and the Anloga and South Tongu Districts.
He said his Government was on a journey to spread development projects equitably in the country, with Volta having its share.
Plans were, therefore, underway for the rehabilitation of the Sogakope-Gbenuakope Road, known as the “Hospitality Lane”, and serving major facilities like the Villa Cisneros and Holy Trinity SPA & Health Farm, he announced.
The President mentioned other plans for the Region, such as the dredging of the Keta Lagoon and the Keta Harbour to open up the Southern Volta for accelerated development.
He urged the citizenry to offer “four more for Nana to do more for you”.
The President’s visit took him early on to Anloga, where he met with the Awoamefia of the Anlo State and his retinue of chiefs from Akatsi North, Akatsi South and Anloga Districts, Ketu North, Ketu South, and Keta Municipalities.
There, he touted his achievements such as the creation of the Anloga District, the ongoing construction of the new Assembly Complex and GETFund projects in Anloga, and Keta Districts to justify his second bid.
He urged the people to ignore claims that he and the NPP had an ethnic agenda against the region saying, “history will not forgive me” should that be true.
Nana Akufo-Addo emphasised that the region was and would remain an integral part of both the Danquah-Dombo-Busia Tradition ( the root of the NPP) for providing shelter to their forebears, when it was needed the most; and Ghana for the composition of the National Anthem and the patriotic song “Miade ‘nyigba lorlor la” by Mr Philip Gbeho and Mr Ephraim Amu, respectively, among others.
GNA