The 2016 presidential candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party Nana Akufo-Addo has accused the National Democratic Congress (NDC) of waging “tribal campaign” in the Eastern region ahead of the 2016 elections.
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NDC's Agenda 50/50 is 'tribal campaign' - Nana Addo
The NDC has vowed to win 50 percent of votes cast in the Eastern region
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He said the performance of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the region would determine the outcome of the election of 2016.
“We know of the ‘Agenda 50/50’ project of the NDC. Our project is different. We are looking for 70% of the popular vote in the Eastern region in 2016. The time has come that the NPP demonstrated its strength in the Eastern region,” he said.
“They are coming to wage a tribal campaign in the Eastern region, that’s why they are talking about ‘Agenda 50/50’. We cannot allow them to do that. We have to build a coalition of all the people of the Eastern region.
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“Eastern region contains all tribes in the region. It is a microcosm of Ghana, Ghana in one region. Our campaign, understanding and strategy has to be as if we are fighting a Ghanaian election in the Eastern region,” Nana Akufo-Addo added during his ‘Rise and Build’ tour in the region.
He urged the party to evolve strategies which would neutralise the obvious “tribal campaign” the NDC would wage in the Eastern region in the run-up to the 2016 election.
Nana Akufo-Addo explained that, as per the 2010 census, the region has a population of 2.5 million people, comprising of 1.3 million people of Akan origin and 1.2 million non-Akan.
It would be recalled that the Eastern Regional Secretariat of the NDC vowed to snatch eight parliamentary seats from the NPP to add to the seven the party currently has.
This will bring to 15, the total number of seats the NDC will have in the region after the 2016 parliamentary elections.
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The NDC currently has seven seats out of the 33 in the region whilst the NPP has 22.
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Unsatisfied with this number, the NDC has embarked on a campaign to win more seats in the region come 2016. To this end, the Eastern Regional Secretariat of the party on June 20, 2015 has mapped out a two-pronged strategy that groups all the parliamentary seats into two.
The seats the NDC seeks to snatch from the NPP include Asuogyaman, Ayensuano, Abetifi, Fanteakwa North, Abirim, Suhum, AkimOda and Ofoase-Ayirebi.
Chairman of the NDC in the Eastern Region, Tawiah Boateng the Regional Communications Officer, at the launch of their “Agenda 50/50″ in Koforidua.
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According to him, the Eastern Region has never been and will never be the stronghold of the NPP.
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