Sunyani: The National Democratic Party (NDP) in the Bono Region has elected new regional executives as the Election 2024 gathers momentum and charged them to work hard towards securing more parliamentary seats in the region.
The 11-member executives, chaired by Mr Evans Ofori Mensah is also tasked to make the presence of the party felt by making it more attractive to woo the youth and enhance its political fortunes in the Election 2024.
Other executives included Nana Pantampram, the First Vice Chairman, Joseph Tachie, Secretary, Michael Kusi, Deputy Secretary, Oheneba Kyei-Darko, Treasurer, Emmanuel Ansu, Youth Leader, and Regina Manu, First Deputy Youth Leader.
The rest were Janet Yeboah, the Women’s Leader, Abena Amankwah, First Deputy Women’s Leader, Akosua Kyeremaa, Second Deputy Women’s Leader and Daniel Kusi, the communication officer.
Mr Charles Opoku, the National Treasurer for NDP, addressing the regional delegates congress of the party, at Sunyani, said the Party remained the best option for Gha
na now, saying both the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and National Democratic Congress (NDC) had failed Ghanaians.
The new executives were elected by a popular acclamation in an election conducted and supervised by the Electoral Commission (EC).
Mr Opoku said the party had Parliamentary Candidates contesting the General Election in five constituencies in the region and asked the executives to work hard and galvanise a strong support base for seats in Tain, Banda, Dormaa Central, Jaman South and Nkoranza South constituencies.
He expressed the hope that the executives would work hard not only to affirm the confidence reposed in them by the delegates, but also lead the party to make significant impacts in the election.
Mr Mensah, the Bono Regional Chairman later told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that the hope for the NDP to win political power and some of the parliamentary seats remained higher due to the worsened economic situation of the country.
He said it was only the NDP government that could tackle the dep
reciation of the Ghana cedi and alleviate the plight of the ordinary citizenry and called on the electorate to vote for the NDP when they go to ballot on December 7.
Mr Guggisberg Asirifi-Young, the Bono Regional Director of the EC who supervised the election congratulated the executives, saying the nation cherished multi-party democracy, and asked the party to remain decorous in the electioneering too.
Source: Ghana News Agency