Member of Parliament for Tamale South in the Northern Region Haruna Iddrisu says his credibility, visibility and accessibility will be factors that will win the constituency for himself and President John Mahama in 2016.
He said the constituency is poised to win more than 60,000 votes for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the presidential elections.
He said the support by chiefs and opinion leaders in the constituency is proof that he “will be re-elected to parliament come December 2016”. My personal pledge is to support President Mahama and my own self with 63,000 votes”.
Haruna Iddrisu, who is the only parliamentary candidate in the Northern Region to have won at all128 polling stations in the last elections was speaking to journalists after presenting parliamentary nomination forms at the constituency office.
He was accompanied by former Black Stars captain Stephen Appiah to present his parliamentary nomination form at the constituency office to seek re-election.
The Tamale south legislator who has gone unopposed on three consecutive times in the constituency primaries of the party said he will be leading a campaign with the Northern Regional executives of the party to recover all ten seats that it lost to the New Patriotic Party in the last elections.
“Because of some political slippages and poor judgment in terms of us not working there together we lost. I use to head the ‘Get Attah Mills Elected’ and you can compare and appreciate that if we work together we can make it,” he noted.
Haruna Iddrisu, who is also the Minister for Employment and Labor Relations also said women empowerment, access to electricity, sanitation and education among others has seen massive improvement in the constituency within the period that he has been the legislator of the constituency.
He announced plans to tackle youth unemployment which according to him has become a worry to him.
