The Upper East Regional Women’s Organizer of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Georgina Ayamba, has predicted that the NPP will win all 15 parliamentary seats in the region.
Speaking in an interview with Bolgatanga-based Yem Radio, Madam Ayamba opined that the NPP government has performed well hence the residents of the region will not only vote to retain the president, but will elect all parliamentary candidates of the party.
Justifying her seemingly over-ambitious target, the governing party Women’s Organizer stated that residents of the region have indicated strongly, through her interactions with them, their desire to vote for the NPP and its parliamentary candidates for the continuous implementation of the numerous developmental projects and social interventions initiated by the Akufo-Addo led administration.
“(we are going to win all) 15 seats. The good people of Upper East Region are ready. There is no place you will go and they will not give you the sign that they are ready for the NPP government because they have seen the good works that we are doing,” she stated.
Madam Georgina Ayamba claimed she inducts into the NPP five to ten people defecting from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) daily. This, she said, is because the people of the region have lost faith in the opposition party. She stated that, unlike the NPP that fulfil its promises to the people of the region, the NDC has continuously deceived them.
“I’m on the ground with the people. There is no day that I won’t receive 5, 10 women who used to be in NDC who will come to my house. Now, some of them are sitting in my house waiting for me because they said yes, Georgina, the NPP government we have seen that what you say is what you would do. NDC have deceived for long. Now, we are doing away with them,” she said in the interview.
Out of the 15 seats in the region, the NPP is currently occupying only 3 including the Navrongo Central, Zebilla and Tempane seats.
The highest number of seats the NPP has ever won in the region since the inception of the Fourth Republic is 4 in two elections; the 2004 and the 2008 elections.
But the region has continuously voted the NDC both presidential and parliamentary.
