The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) are fiercely fighting for the hearts and minds of people in the three regions of northern Ghana – the Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions. What they actually want are the thumbs of the people on December 7. That will give them power. V-8 power! And after that the description of those regions will remain as they have been since independence in 1957 – the poorest regions of Ghana.