Eva Lokko to break NDC, NPP monopoly in Klottey Korle?
The vice-presidential candidate of the Progressive People’s Party in the 2012 election, Ms Eva Naa Merley Lokko, who is seeking to become the party’s parliamentary candidate for the Klottey Korle Constituency, has pledged her determination to break the monopoly enjoyed by the National Democratic Congress(NDC) and the New Patriotic Party in the constituency.
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Making the pledge when she picked her nominations forms at the party offices in Accra yesterday, she argued that ‘’as an indigene, nobody can be more of Osu Klottey Korle than Lokko’’.
She said the PPP, even though was formed seven months to the 2012 elections, it came third after the two main political parties in that election, which shows the party could do better in in this year’s election by overtaking the two main political parties in the Klottey Korle Constituency.
Unemployment and poor sanitation
She explained that unemployment and poor sanitation had been the lot of the youth and residents in the constituency as empty promises had failed to materialise with the youth becoming fed up with too much talk without fulfilment.
She said seeing this poor state of development in the constituency after 59 years of independence, the PPP could not sit down and do business as usual.
She said the party had listened to the citizens of Klottey Korle and heard their complaints of failed promises to provide jobs to the youth in the constituency.
Ms Lokko said the party would put into action four pillars of incorruptible leadership, free compulsory education, job creation and preventive healthcare and sanitation across the length and breadth of the constituency.
Development model
She stressed that together with the residents of the constituency, the PPP would build a Klottey Korle development model that other constituencies would emulate.
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She appealed to Nimei, Naamei, Wulomei and other opinion leaders to give the PPP the opportunity to represent them in Parliament so that Ghanaians could have a practical taste of good governance.
She said, for example, that her grandfather was one of the first sanitation inspectors in Ghana and the first person he took to court was his own mother and he paid the fine.
‘’So I understand incorruptible leadership and I understand the importance of good governance and sanitation,’’ she explained.
Ms Lokko said, therefore, that with the support of the residents in the constituency, she could provide Klottey Korle with the level of development it deserved.
The vice-presidential candidate for 2012 stressed that good governance meant honest leadership at all levels to promote the welfare of the people and not failed projects and gargantuan debts and what she described as ‘’designer-corruption’’.
Voting pattern
The voting pattern in the Klottey Korle Constituency has been swinging between the NDC and the NPP since the 2000 election.
In the last election in 2012, Nii Armah Ashietey of the NDC polled 36.122 votes,Nii Adjei Tawiah of the NPP followed closely with 34,847, Leeford Quarshie (Ind) got 1,354, and Chris Bonaparte of the PPP had 1,151.
The rest are Kau Okai-Davies of the CPP polled 408 and Godwin Opare-- Addoh (Ind) polled 327.