Mr Blay during one of his visits
The National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Freddie Blay, on Tuesday began a nationwide tour to afford him the opportunity to assess at first hand the readiness of the NPP machinery in the run up to the December 7 elections.
Mr Blay, as part of the tour, first visited Oti Region, where he held a meeting at Nkwanta with the regional executives, constituency executives, the Regional Minister and his Deputy, District Chief Executives from the eight districts, CEOs and deputy CEOs from various state institutions and some members of the regional campaign team.
Key areas
The National Chairman charged the region to focus on the two most important individuals who would be appearing on the ballot, i.e. the President, who doubles as the presidential candidate for the party, and the parliamentary candidates in the various constituencies within the region.
He further advised the party leadership and the parliamentary candidates to let go all kinds of misgivings that have the potential to derail the party’s electoral fortunes.
Chairman Blay noted that the governing party has a very solid, reliable, decisive, compassionate and marketable candidate with unmatched integrity, which makes it easy to sell to the Ghanaian populace.
“Beyond the personal attributes of the flagbearer, we have a government that has achieved an unprecedented milestone in all facets of the Ghanaian economy, from over 2.5 million jobs created within the last 3.5 years, massive infrastructure development across the country specifically where for the first time in any government’s first term in office we are witnessing the construction of over 750km of asphalted roads across the country, free education, ID1F, and so on…” he said.
Retail campaigning
Mr Blay commended the party for the good work done so far, and asked the team to focus more on retail campaigning because of its impact and the fact that in following the Covid-19 protocols, it is extremely difficult to rely on the regular large scale campaigning which characterised the party’s previous campaigns.
The NPP Chairman also met some identifiable groups, including Muslim leaders, the Deputy Regional Chief Imam, the Saraki Zongo Chief and some leaders of the Kotokori community during which he asked them to pray for peaceful elections.
He further advised the younger generations to desist from electoral violence.
The chiefs, who called on the National Chairman, were extremely happy he could make sometime out of his busy schedule to see them.
Condolence
Mr Blay made the last stop at Beyond 90.7 Fm ,in Nkwanta, where he used the occasion to express his condolences to the good people of Oti Region following the passing of former President Jerry John Rawlings.
He held that the seven days of national mourning that was instituted by the President makes it impossible to campaign. However, his visit to the station was as a result of respect for the media and the need to equally use the occasion to express his condolences and that of the governing party to the entire Oti Region.
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