Akufo-Addo is the overwhelming choice of NPP delegates

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Former Minister of Finance and Economic Planning under the erstwhile Kufuor-led New Patriotic Party (NPP) government, says results of the 2010 presidential primary and the August 31 special electoral college show clearly that Nana Akufo-Addo, two-time standard bearer of the party and currently the leading contender of the flagbearership race, is the overwhelming choice of the party?s delegates.

Nana Akufo-Addo
Nana Akufo-Addo

According to Yaw Osafo-Maafo, in 2010 with an expanded Electoral College of 106,000 plus delegates ? made up largely of polling station executives ? Nana Akufo-Addo obtained some 79% of valid votes cast.

He further added that in the August 31, 2014 contest, where the Electoral College, consisting of Members of Parliament, constituency chairmen, regional executives, founding fathers, national officers, members of the National Council and the Council of Elders, Nana Akufo-Addo garnered 80.81% of the votes cast.

This, according to Mr. Osafo-Maafo, was a clear manifestation of the support Nana Akufo-Addo enjoys among the rank and file of the NPP, adding that he had no doubt whatsoever that on October 18, this year, Nana would receive nothing less than an 80% endorsement at the party?s presidential primary.

?Akufo-Addo already has 80% of NPP votes. The majority of people, no matter their level in the party, support Nana Akufo-Addo. On 18 October, we will show them that he is the choice of the NPP going into election 2016,? he optimistically said.

Mr. Osafo-Maafo explained that that was the basis for his call, prior to the special Electoral College that any candidate who obtained more than two-thirds of the votes must be allowed to run unopposed as the party?s leader for the general election.

The former finance minister admonished the delegates to remain focused and deliver victory for the party in the 2016 general elections.

?I am certain we will win the 2016 elections. It is the most important vote for this country and we will deliver,? he added.

He charged the delegates to welcome on board everyone who previously was not in support of Nana Akufo-Addo?s bid to lead the NPP.

Mr Osafo-Maafo made these comments when he addressed the 84 Eastern Regional delegates, who voted in the August 31 contest and gave a 91.67% endorsement for Nana Addo, when the latter took his ?Thank You? tour to the region yesterday.

Reward Akufo-Addo

MP for Asuogyaman and former presidential aspirant, Kofi Osei Ameyaw, urged the delegates to deliver another resounding victory for Nana Akufo-Addo on October 18.

He explained that the person who championed the expansion of the Electoral College of the NPP in 2009, thereby ensuring that the grassroots of the party have an equal say in who becomes presidential candidate of the party, was Nana Akufo-Addo.

?In view of this, let us reward Nana by making sure that he wins the election massively. It is because of Nana Akufo-Addo that all polling station executives now vote. I pledge my support for him once again and will work hard to make sure that he becomes the next President of Ghana,? Mr. Osei-Ameyaw articulated.

Present at the event were Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, 2008 and 2012 running mate to Nana Akufo-Addo, other prominent figures of the NPP as well as constituency and regional executives.

Nana Akufo-Addo will round off his ?Thank You? tour in the Volta Region today.

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