THE immediate past General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Dan Kwaku Botwe, has called on polling station chairmen to work hard for a resounding victory at the December polls.
Speaking after he was elected unopposed to contest the Okere Constituency seat in the Akuapem North District of the Eastern Region, he appealed to the rank and file of the party in all constituencies to put aside their differences and unite to win both the presidential and parliamentary elections.
Earlier, Mr Botwe, who is also a former Minister of Information in the Kufuor Administration, did not show interest in contesting the parliamentary seat, and so he did not file his nomination papers for the slot; but he later rescinded his decision after almost all the 96 polling station chairmen, constituting the Electoral College, had persistently appealed to him to do so.
That was after three persons, Messrs Paul Larbi, Clement Ofori and Charles Okraku Budu, a polling station chairman, who filed to contest the elections were disqualified for going contrary to the NPP Constitution.
At the primary at Adukrom on Tuesday, the Akuapem North District Electoral Officer, Mr Addo Boateng, declared Mr Botwe duly elected, after which the Eastern Regional Chairman of the NPP, Sub Lt. Christian Kofi Tettey, (retd) introduced him to the gathering to a thunderous applause.
Mr Botwe traced the history of the party, pointing out the difficulties it went through before coming to power.
“The NPP has come out with initiatives such as the National Health Insurance Scheme, the Capitation Grant, the School Feeding Programme and the numerous poverty alleviation initiatives which are going a long way to alleviate the economic difficulties of the people,” Mr Botwe stated.
The outgoing MP for the area, Mr B.D.K. Adu, the District Chief Executive, Mr Edward Adu Aboagye, as well as Sub Lt (retd) Tettey, have called on all to support Mr Botwe to win the seat since he had the potential of once more becoming a Cabinet Minister.
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