CPP ADOPTS STRATEGY TO ATTRACT MORE VOTERS (PAGE 15)

THE Convention People’s Party (CPP) has come out with a new strategy that will attract more voters to win this year’s election.
Under a scheme, dubbed “Operation first time voters” the party has identified itself with 20 voters in each of the 21,000 polling stations in the country who are being resourced to rope in 10 or more additional voters in each polling station.
The Communications Director of the campaign team of the flag bearer of the CPP, Mr Richmond Keelson, announced this at a press briefing in Koforidua at the weekend.
Mr Keelson, who together with other officials of the party, were in the various constituencies in that respect said with the enthusiasm of the people for the CPP, there was no doubt that the party would be a force to reckon with at the December polls.
“We have now come out with this strategy and many people who have decided to join the party have been issued with ID cards, and judging by the favourable response, the party will win the elections to implement its laudable policies to improve the lot of Ghanaians”, Mr Keelson stated.
He, therefore, called on Ghanaians to throw in their lot behind the CPP to win the elections convincingly.
The Communications Director of the Nduom Campaign Team who stated that there were however some initial difficulties in carrying out the strategy in some areas, such as the Afram Plains, explained that such problems were being addressed.
He expressed the hope that all those targeted would be roped in by September 21 when the party’s electioneering would have taken off, to coincide with Nkrumah’s birthday.
In answer to a question whether the CPP still drew its main support from the elderly, he said that had changed and that the youth now constituted the party’s support base, adding that with almost all of its parliamentary aspirants now under the age of 40, the party would be a force to reckon with at the polls.
Messrs Joe Teye and David Tekper, the party’s Eastern Regional First Vice Chairman and Organiser respectively, said the CPP was now very strong in the region, and called on the people to throw in their lot to enable the party to win the elections.