The 2016 Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, took his campaign to a number of churches in the Takoradi and Effia constituencies on Sunday in the Western region pleading with Ghanaians to give him the opportunity to lead Ghana.

"I am pleading with you to try me also, so I can show you what I can do for this country and I promise I will never let you down," he told the Christians at the Bethel Methodist Church.

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On his campaign to win the confidence of the electorate during the first leg of his four-day tour of the Western Region, Nana Akufo-Addo asked churches to  pray for Mr J. B. Danquah-Adu, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa North, who was gruesomely murdered last Tuesday, and Mr Ben Kwaw, the late acting chairman of the party in the region.

"I am asking you to pray for me too. Pray to God so He grants me strength, courage, wisdom and a compassionate heart to be a good leader. In this election year, I am  asking for your support for me and the NPP. I am pleading with you to try me also, so I can show you what I can do for this country and I promise you I will never let you down," he said.

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Nana Akufo-Addo, who was welcomed in each of the churches he worshipped admonished the congregation that though "we're going through difficult times in Ghana, I believe we have a great destiny ahead of us. We have an opportunity, this year, to peacefully change Ghana. I am inviting all of you to look deep inside yourselves and be part of this Movement for Change, so we can have a Ghana that is fit for our young people to grow up in; a Ghana full of wealth and jobs for all our people".