STATEMENT BY NANA ADDO DANKWA AKUFO-ADDO, MP, NPP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, ON THE PRESENTATION OF THE NPP 2008 CAMPAIGN COMMITTEES 13TH MARCH, 2008 PRESS CONFERENCE AT NPP HQ, ASYLUM DOWN, ACCRA
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Media:
I am happy that you have been able to honor our invitation to join the Vice President, National Chairman, General Secretary and other National Party Officers, Ministers of State, Members of Parliament, Party functionaries and members, and me, for this first news conference since the NPP elected me as its presidential candidate on December 23rd, 2007. I continue to thank the Almighty God and the Party’s rank and file for the grace bestowed on me on that fateful day, awesome though the responsibility is.
Since my nomination, I have traveled across the country, meeting with Party members, various interest groups and members of the general public to listen to their concerns. In accepting the Party’s nomination, I undertook to shoulder the burden of leading the Party to a decisive victory in the December Presidential and Parliamentary elections. For us in the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the Presidential and Parliamentary campaigns will be one and the same, as our goal is to retain the Presidency and our majority in Parliament. What we have, we hold. What we don’t have, we intend to get.
So our first task is to retain the 128 seats that we now have, for, in doing so, we will also automatically win the Presidency and succeed in making history by being the first political party in Ghana to transfer power from one President to another of the same Party. Our success will mean that the development of our country in freedom is on course for the consolidation of our democracy and the attainment of prosperity for all our people.
Source: GhanaWeb
