[ 2015-03-31 ]

NPP targets 17 Parliamentary seats in Northern Region
The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said
it is repositioning itself to overturn the
governing National Democratic Congress (NDC)
monopoly over the Northern Region as its electoral
World Bank. The NPP has declared its intention to
win 17 out of the 31 Parliamentary seats during
the 2016 general elections.
The party’s Regional Secretary, Sule Salifu told
Citi News in an interview that, “In fact, the
number of seats that we are very sure of winning I
can confidently tell you that we are targeting
between seven to 10 seats but for now we are sure
of seven additional seats.” He posited, “We
have done our research, stealing was one of the
issues that affected us in these constituencies
and the caliber of agents that we now have to
monitor the elections in those areas would not
allow any more stealing in these areas and again
the kind of candidates that are actually competing
should any of them win the primaries then the NPP
will certainly win the election.” Since 1992
because of the NDC founder, Jerry John
Rawlings’s track record in the Northern Region,
the party has over the years overwhelmingly won
both the Presidential and Parliamentary elections
in the area. With President John Dramani Mahama
then as the NDC’s Presidential candidate for the
2012 general elections, it was anticipated that
the party would have swept all the 31
Parliamentary seats in his home region. However,
the dynamics slightly changed when the opposition
New Patriotic Party (NPP) moved from three to 10
Parliamentary seats in the Northern Region. -

Source - Citifmonline

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