Consider projects to vote for NDC — Fiter
A member of the Northern Regional Communications team of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Mohammed Seidu Fiter, has advised people of northern descent to consider the various infrastructural projects undertaken by the NDC government in their respective regions to vote massively for the party in the November polls.
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Mr Fiter, who defected from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) as a polling agent, also warned northerners, particularly Dogombas, against voting for the NPP, in order to ensure their peace and security.
Interventions
He said under the current NDC administration, many areas in northern Ghana had seen transformational development projects.
He cited the Sawla-Fufulso road, Bolga Regional Hospital, Tamale International Airport, conversion of the Nyankpala Veterinary College into a university, extension of electricity to northern Ghana and the construction of the Eastern corridor road as some of the interventions that had contributed greatly to the development of northern Ghana.
Caution
Mr Fiter said this during a press conference held at the Radach Memorial Centre in Tamale in the Northern Region last Thursday.
He added that under the NDC government, northern Ghana had been given its fair share of the national cake, hence the need to give the NDC another chance to continue with the good works.
According to him, the Dagombas would not have their peace of mind when the NPP was voted for in the November polls.
“It is the peace of Dagbon under the NDC that is bringing investors into our region,” he said, adding that “if we make a mistake by voting for the NPP, all our investment in the Tamale International Airport will go to waste, as investors will not dare come closer to a region that has no peace”.
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Mr Fiter said “come to think of it, where would we as Dagombas have been if we had listened to former President Rawlings in 1999 and not made a mistake by voting for the NPP?”.
Discrimination
He said the NPP relegated Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama to the background under the Kufuor administration, when the time came for him to climb the political ladder as the presidential candidate of the party.
“One person who should have shared the credit with Kufuor was Vice-President Aliu Mahama. And it would have been prudent for the leadership of the party, including former President J.A. Kufuor, to support him, but the whole party abandoned him for another person”.
He cited the suspension of the National Chairman, Mr Paul Afoko, as a clear indication that the NPP detested the idea of northerners ascending to the high offices of the party.