Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has advised the people of the Mamprusi community not to vote on tribal lines but base their decisions on the competence of candidates.
He said the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) believed in inclusiveness and urged those preaching tribal politics in the area to stop.
Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, the running mate to New Patriotic Party (NPP) flag bearer Nana Akufo-Addo, who is a Mamprusi, has been accused of embarking on a tribal campaign in the area but, according to Mr Amissah-Arthur, such politics is bad.
The vice president said this when he addressed a rally at Nalerigu in the Gambaga-Nalerigu constituency as part of his tour of the Northern Region.
“This election is an election in which the needs of the people are provided; it’s an election which is not about personality, it’s not where you come from because if your only point is that you come from Mamprugu and, therefore, they should vote for you, what happens when you go to Damongo? You can’t say the same thing so (your message) must be something better, more powerful than where you come from, because if only the people of Mamprugu will vote for you and the rest of the country doesn’t, then you are left as an orphan in Mamprugu,” he stated.
Mr Amissah-Arthur said the NDC had the right message for the electorate.
“You must be part of the great things that are happening. You must be part of the development of this country, you must be part of the roads that you see, schools, hospitals, everything that is going on in this country that is good. You must be part of it, so that is the message. I think we have a powerful message, a message of development for all the people that this country must move on together, that people must better themselves every year and we can see improvement in their lives so that this country can go forward. We have come not as people who come from this area but as part of the big enterprise called Ghana that we are all part of that we should all benefit from…” he said.
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
