A New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary aspirant for Akyem Achiase in the Eastern Region, George Niako, has appealed to delegates in the constituency to vote for him massively during the parliamentary primary on January 27, 2024, to enable him to unite the various factions in the party to help break the eight
According to him, the current state of misunderstanding and disunity in the party is fuelling apathy and if not checked could affect the fortunes of the party in the coming elections.
The Tema-based Electrical Engineer said this when addressing a section of the media and stressed that if he was given the nod as the parliamentary candidate, he would secure not less than 90 percent of presidential votes for the NPP in the December 7, 2024, general elections as he would unify the factions with the help of the constituency council of elders.
He stated that if he was voted as the MP, he would rehabilitate all feeder roads in the farming communities in the constituency to facilitate the movement of people and the evacuation of agricultural produce from the hinterlands to the marketing centers.
Mr. Niako added that he would provide free transport for farmers in the area to cart their farm produce from the farm gates to the marketing centers to sell, adding that he would also supply them with free farming inputs and in addition recruit gangs to spray their cocoa farms to increase production.
He explained that in the 2016 general election, both President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the parliamentary candidate, Robert Amoah, obtained equal votes of 16,000 while the National Democratic (NDC) parliamentary candidate had 6,000 votes.
He said when the NPP changed its parliamentary candidate in 2020, Nana Akufo-Addo maintained his presidential votes of 16,000 while the new NPP parliamentary candidate, in the person of Kofi Ahenkorah-Marfo, had 14,000 votes with the NDC parliamentary candidate, increasing his votes from 6,000 to 9,000, which means that some NPP supporters voted “skirt and blouse” due to the factions in the party.
The Aspiring Candidate noted that he had been a financier of the NPP in the Achiase Constituency since 2012.
Mr Niako, thus, appealed to the delegates to vote for him massively during the parliamentary primary on January 27, 2024, to enable him to put his plans into action for the betterment of the constituency.
