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The National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Wednesday launched its biometric Identification Cards (ID) in Kumasi with a strong pledge to wrestle more parliamentary seats in the Ashanti Region, currently occupied by its opponent. Mr. Johnson Aseidu Nketiah, General Secretary, said NDC was determined to win more seats in the Ashanti Region in next year�s general elections. The ID cards were to help identify party members across the Region and galvanise them to work for victory in the 2016 elections. Mr Asiedu Nketiah pointed out that, the good works of the party, led by President John Dramani Mahama in the Ashanti Region, would profess victory for the party in the elections. He indicated that the party was putting a lot of measures in place to prepare the grounds to wrestle more of the parliamentary seats in the Region from the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), which was dominant in the Region. All indications also pointed to the fact that, the party would secure the one million votes targeted for its presidential candidate in the general elections. Mr. Asiedu Nketiah, praised party members and supporters in the Region for untiring efforts at projecting the good deeds of the government to the people in the Region, and said Ashanti Region was no longer a stronghold of the NPP. He announced that already, about 200,000 supporters and members of the party in the Ashanti Region had registered with the new Biometric ID cards system, which would be used for the forthcoming parliamentary and Presidential primaries of the party in November. The party has targeted to register over 300,000 of its members in the Region before the end of this year, while registration of new members would start early next year. Mr Asiedu Nketiah pointed that members who could not get their biometric ID cards before November, could use their voters� ID card to vote in the primaries since their voters� ID numbers had been quoted on the party�s new biometric card.