A member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Agana Bawa Rashid is confident that the NPP and its presidential candidate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia will end the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC’s) dominance in the Upper East Region in the upcoming elections.
He noted that the NDC’s dominance of the region since 1992 is largely due to the ties the party’s founder, J. J. Rawlings had established in the region and falsehoods peddled against the NPP.
Recalling the party’s struggle in the region, he stated that right from the early 1990s to the early 2000s, people of the region did not want to associate with the NPP because of the fabrications fuelled by the NDC against it.
“They have been doing well from 1992 up to date. Around 1996, hardly would you get someone here in the Upper East Region to wear an NPP T-shirt,” he stated.
“ Kufuor then came here as candidate. Look, he was walking from taxi rank to the Bolga Baba house with only 4 people following him. You couldn’t see a crowd around or someone just to wear NPP T-shirt in Bolga was a problem.”
However, the tide is gradually being turned as some of the falsehoods have been dispelled and the NPP also establishing strong connections in the region, he observed.
While urging his party do more to disabused the minds of the people about untruths told about it, he expressed confidence that the NPP led Dr. Bawumia will end the NDC’s dominance in the region.
“People are seeing the light of the day now and I can tell you that in the Upper East Region, going forward, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is going to break that chain. Our candidate, the Vice-President, the next president of Ghana is going to break that chain and you will see the results in the Upper East Region and you’ll ask yourself what happened because the NPP has been working so hard across all the constituencies.”
