The Eastern Regional 2nd Vice Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Twum Berimah, has stated that the party is poised to win all the six orphan constituencies in the region to increase the party’s number of seats in Parliament in the 2020 polls.
“We want to add more new seats, we are determined to win and we are going to make sure that as best as possible, we are going with solid campaign messages and people so that our chances of winning the 2020 general election will be realized.
According to him, the regional executives including himself were working harder to attract more votes from the orphan constituencies that are not the strongholds of the NPP.
While Asuogyaman is noted among the swing constituencies in the country, Lower Manya Krobo, Yilo Krobo, Afram Plains North and South and Upper West Akim constituencies remain seats the NPP is struggling to win since 1992.
Mr. Twum told Rite FM the party would be well-positioned, attractive and visible to the Ghanaian electorate as the 2020 polls get closer.
Speaking in an interview with Austin Ofori Addo during the filling of their parliamentary candidate Djetse Francis Apertey in the Yilo Krobo Constituency, Mr. Berimah said “our mission as a party will include propagating the good works and policies of the government to make the party more acceptable in the orphan constituencies which are considered to be the strongholds of the main opposition NDC.”
He stressed that the idea to win the six orphan constituencies in the region would be achieved because the government has done enough within the last two years and seven months of being in power.
He called on Ghanaians to throw their weight behind the NPP government at this year’s general elections.
“It is a battle and we are going back to the people to account for what we have done and to tell them what we have for the people of Ghana, and I’m so sure that based on our track record, the people of Ghana will once again renew our mandate in the 2020 elections”, he stated confidently.
He noted that the level of development in the country so far was an indication that the NPP would win the 2020 general election ‘one-touch’.
He, therefore, directed all constituency executives in the orphan constituencies to remain focus and campaign for the victory of the party.
