By Dennis Peprah
Odomase, (B/R), Dec. 29, GNA-Constituency executives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) have been urged to work extra hard for the party to win more parliamentary seats in the Election 2024.
According to Mr Yaw Dabie Appiah Mensah, a leading member of the NPP in the Bono Region, it would be extremely difficult for another NPP government under the watch of the Vice President Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia if the party failed to win a complete majority in parliament.
Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Odomase in the Sunyani West Municipality, Mr Mensah, a former organiser of the NPP in the then Brong-Ahafo Region, said the government had done a lot to regain political power in the next general election.
However, he said “if we are unable to win a larger majority of the house, then we should bear in mind that parliament would frustrate and make our next government under Vice President Bawumia unpopular in the eyes of the masses”.
Mr Mensah said the outcome of the just ended District Level Elections (DLEs) “must send a signal to all our constituency executives that they had a lot to do, if we can maintain and win more of the parliamentary seats in 2024”.
“In fact, it is glaring that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) had an upper hand against the NPP in the just ended DLEs because the outcome of the elections is clear that most of their aspirants who contested the elections won”.
“We must therefore use the DLEs to learn lessons and ensure the mistakes we did are not repeated in the Election 2024 because that would be a political suicide for us all and send us to the grave”, Mr Mensah stated.
As the backbone and pillar of the NPP, the former NPP organiser stressed “our constituency executives and government appointees must up and doing, stop the complacency and work hard to enable Alhaji Dr Bawumia to maintain the NPP in political power and also win more parliamentary seats in the 2024 general election”.
He emphasised “the NDC is only good at retarding national progress”, reminding that the NDC destroyed the solid foundation laid by the former President John Agyekum Kufuor administration, and thereby pushing national development backward.
“Despite that the NDC is desperate for political power, and we must work hard, reach out, and let the masses understands and appreciates the ideals of our great party and what the Vice President Bawumia is doing and can do to transform and turn around the nation’s economic fortunes,” Mr Mensah stated.
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