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The Director of Communications of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Richard Ahiagbah, has appealed to the electorate in the Volta Region to vote massively for the party in the forthcoming elections to end the years of neglect and abuse in thehands of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
“The NDC has not spent its political capital on the Volta Region, despite the massive 88.9 per cent average support from its voters in all presidential elections since 1992, compared to NPP’s 10.2 per cent,” he said at a press conference in Ho last Wednesday.
Mr Ahiagbah said that notwithstanding the Volta Region's loyalty to the NDC,the party had not treated the region a sits stronghold in terms of meeting the people's development aspirations.
“The Volta Region has notseen the expected investment to create jobs and improve the regional economy, health infrastructure, education and trade opportunities under all NDC governmentsin this Fourth Republic, beyond paying lip service and playingn with the emotions of the people,” he added.
MrAhiagbah said the years of NDC neglect of the region had left a job opportunity vacuum, which had resulted in a mass exodus of young people from the region to other areas in search of jobs.
He pointed out the widespreadmigration, particularly of the youth, which had implications for the human resource capacity of the region,socio-economic stability, and
development.
The NPP Director of Communications insisted that the NDC had taken the Volta Region for granted for far too long, adding that the region’s devotion to the NDC had brought nothing to the people.
“It is, therefore, time to abandon this unproductive electoral partnership with the NDC because the region has not benefitted from it,” Mr Ahiagbah said.
Meanwhile, he said the NPP was grateful to the Volta Region for its steady embrace of the party, with clear and growing indications it would obtain between threefold and fivefold the votes it obtained in the 2020 presidential election.
That, Mr Ahiagbah said, would earn the NPP between 300,000 and 500,000 votes in the region,a margin which would break the NDC’s unproductive and abusive grip on the region.
He told the conference that this would also turn the region into a battle ground where the NPP and NDC would compete for votes based on programmes and policies that uplift people.
“It is not going to be business as usual for the NDC; the usual deception, misrepresentation of inflaming sectional differences and the invocation of former President Rawlings as a son of Volta to derive votes, will no longer work for the NDC,” Mr Ahiagbah predicted.
He said that was even more the case because the Volta Region was experiencing an electoral renaissance led by its middle class and youthwho had embraced the flag bearer of the NPP, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia’s, fourth industrial-era programmes and policies.
He said the evidence of the renaissance became readily evident with the warm welcome accorded Dr Bawumia during his recent campaign tour of the region.
Mr Ahiagbah said despite itsminimalsupport in the Volta Region, the NPP invested the most in the region.
