Walk to keep healthy for 2016 elections

Hundreds of people, mainly youth from the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) led by the parliamentary aspirant for the Suame Constituency,  Francis Dodovi, stormed the principal streets of the Garden City, last week for a fitness walk to begin what is expected to be a bi-weekly exercise to make voters healthy and alive for the 2016 general elections.

 The participants, who included some party big wigs in the region and the Mayor of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Kojo Bonsu, embarked on the two-hour brisk walk intermittent jogging after which they were taken through some aerobic exercises.

 The walk, dubbed ‘1,000 walk for Dodovi,’ was to create awareness and rekindle party activities in the constituency which had been dormant for a while.

 A member of the NDC communications team and recently one of the government's appointee on the KMA, Mr Dodovi, said with hard work it was possible to overturn the 50,000 vote difference at the last elections.

 A trained journalist and former manager of Boss FM, Mr Dodovi is hoping to unseat the minority leader and New Patriotic Party (NPP) member for the area, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu, and to increase President John Dramani Mahama's vote.

 He visited the Suame abattoir, where he promised to correct the insanitary situation in the area, and solicited the help of the constituents to vote out the minority leaders; “whose 20 years in office has seen no development.”