The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has dismissed reports that President John Mahama took his campaign tour to 16 constituencies in the Western region because of the flagbeaer of the New Patriotic Party Nana Addo.

According to the National Campaign Coordinator for the party, Kofi Adams in an interview with Citi FM, “If it is about crowds then we would have gone to sleep after our campaign launch on Sunday. It’s not about crowd; it’s about our campaign strategy. We take the people of Western Region much more serious than Nana Addo does. We take them more serious than anyone reducing them to a reactionary process.”

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The NDC on Sunday, August 14, 2016 launch its campaign at the Cape Coast Sports Stadium in the Central Region.

The theme for the launch was: “Changing lives, changing Ghana”.

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President Mahama is expected to justify why Ghanaians should give him a second chance to serve as President.

Nana Akufo-Addo pulled a massive crowd when he toured the region on his five-day campaign.

Mr. Adams said the NDC already had its plans to start from the Western region and refuted allegations by the NPP.

He said “We have a planned strategy to engage them and to demonstrate what it is that we have done, what we are doing and what we will do based on what we have done and doing. It’s part of our strategy, we drew up this plan long before our launch and we are going to follow our plan accordingly,” he added.

President Mahama is expected to visit 16 constituencies in the region.

The 16 constituencies to be visited are:1. Amenfi Central2. Amenfi East3. Prestea Huni Valley4. Tarkwa5. Evalue Ajomolo Gwira6. Ellembele7. Jomoro8. Ahanta West9. Takoradi10. Effia11. Mpohor12. Kwasimintsim13. Esikado Ketan14. Shama15. Wassa East16. Sekondi.