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The Acting General Secretary of The New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu, has assured the teeming supporters of the party that theleadership will not take chances on the day of elections, and that they will do everything legitimate to ensure the victory the majority of Ghanaians are yearning for.

Speaking to a section of the media yesterday, he said the party had put in place effective measures to ensure that the will of the people is not changed by the forces working against the party.

“As we go round, one of the concerns of the people is that even if they vote for us, the NDC will rig the elections. But I can assure them that we are not taking chances at all in this election and we are doing everything within our means to protect the ballot to ensure that the will of the people is not subverted. We won’t fail Ghanaians,” Mr John Boadu stated.

He urged the electorate to come out in their numbers to vote massively for the party’s presidential candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, and the parliamentary candidates on December 7.

He noted that the NDC and President Mahama know they are losing the elections, hence the resort to campaign on tribal lines.

John Boadu said the President was campaigning on tribal lines because “his poor record of incompetence and corruption cannot win the hearts of the electorate to renew his mandate.”

“How can a whole president go to the North and tell the people to vote for him not because of what he has done to improve on their lives but because the NPP will not allow Dr Bawumia to become president. That is very low and pathetic and it shows the extent of desperation of the president,” he stated.

The NPP General Secretary intimated “… it sounds very ridiculous for the president to claim that the NPP will use and dump Dr Bawumia because we did not allow the late Vice President Aliu Mahama to become the president. Is the president saying Vice President Amissah-Arthur is going to be the NDC’s candidate for the 2020 elections without a contest? The NPP has always resorted to democratic election in selecting our presidential candidates and that is exactly what happened in 2008. It therefore sounds very preposterous for President Mahama to claim that Aliu Mahama did not win the contest because NPP is hates Northerners.”

Mr Boadu explained that the president was only inciting tribal hatred against the NPP because he had seen the people in the north have now seen through his deception.

“How can somebody who claims to have the interest of northerners at heart allow a project like SADA to be used as a conduit to steal resources meant to promote their well-being? Whether you are concerned about the plight of people or not is not determined by mere attempts to malign others but through the concrete steps you have taken to secure better life for them. The people of the north cannot count on Mahama and that’s why they are voting against him in the coming elections,” he stated.

According to Mr. Boadu, NPP’s leadership is overwhelmed by the level of massive support among the electorate, and the determination of the people to return the NPP to power.

He explained that this had resulted from the 8 years of hardship inflicted on the people by the Mahama government, due to their mismanagement, incompetence and corruption.

“We are winning this election and nothing can stop us. I can tell you that so far so good. The people have bought into our message of hope. Our message actually resonates well with the people who have experienced our performance in government before and are convinced we are miles ahead of the NDC when it comes to performance in government. Our record and message are solid and that is why we are concentrating on issue based campaign,” Mr Boadu added.