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FORMER Vice President, Alhaji Aliu Mahama has expressed optimism that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) will return to power in 2012 to continue where former President John Agyekum Kufuor left off in terms of development. Though he envisages that the 2012 elections will be very competitive, he is rest assured the NPP will carry the day adding the election results will be based on the track records and success stories of the contesting political parties. According to him the NPP was poised to run a clean campaign devoid of violence and insults appealing to its political opponents to do the same and stop whipping up tension in the region and blaming others for it. He however cautioned NPP members against complacency in underestimating the strength of NDC. Alhaji Mahama who was speaking on North Star Radio in Tamale during a visit to his home region to celebrate the Eid Ul Adah appealed to party members to devote their time to winning more souls for the NPP in order to widen its victory gap in 2012. Speaking about his recently launch foundation, Alhaji Mahama said the NGO will help tackle some critical health, educational, social and economic challenges facing the majority of Ghanaians, especially those up north. The core objective of Life Care Foundation (LCF) is to complement government efforts at improving the health and general wellbeing of Ghanaians, he explained. LCF which is also to serve as a humanitarian organization especially for those in extremely deprived regions and communities would be working closely with local and international development and donor organizations to provide vital medical equipment, facilities and health specialists to support the health sector at the local level. He noted that three top ophthalmologists from the US led by Dr. Nathaniel Green, head of the Louisville Eye Centre and lecturer at the University of Louisville were in the country earlier this year to support the Eye Centre at Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH). The visit also paved the way for the authorities at the hospital to enter into an agreement with the Louisville Eye Centre to supply the TTH with the equipment needed enhance eye care delivery n the region and beyond. The former vice president expressed hope that the project will help the TTH take care of its ophthalmological difficulties. Alhaji Mustapha Ali Idris, former Northern Regional Minister who accompanied Alhaji Mahama urged people in the region to be patient in the face of difficulties being meted out to them by the current NDC government. He gave the assurance that an NPP government will restore their hopes and ensure more development projects for them He challenged Ghanaians to critically examine their standard of living and vote accordingly in 2012 for a more competent regime to take over the reins of the country. The former minister catalogued a number of projects embarked on by the erstwhile NPP government including seeking lasting peace for people of the region and the urged natives to coexist peacefully. He observed that the north will only progress if its citizens embrace peace and work towards peacefully living together warning that the recurring chieftaincy crises had derailed the peace progress in the past. �We must all say never again shall we allow chieftaincy and ethnic differences to separate us,� he remarked.