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Delegates in the Odododiodioo National Democratic Congress (NDC) primary, have been urged to vote for continuity to consolidate the gains of the party in the constituency since 2005. The call was made by the seating MP, Mr Jonathan Nii Tackie Komme in Accra on Friday when he collected his nomination form to contest the party's election in the constituency for the 2012 Parliamentary election. He said delegates should give their mandate to the best candidate, who had been tried and tested to maintain the seat for the party. Accompanied by some delegates, who would be attending the constituency party�s primary, he said, their presence had given him the confidence that he could win the seat again for the NDC for the third time. Mr Tackie Komme recalled the saying in the constituency that "no one wins the parliamentary seat for the second time" and stated that in spite of that he broke the jinx winning in the 2005 bye-election and again in 2008 because of his good work and said he was determined to win again to make the seat a safe one for the party. He promised never to turn his back on the delegates if they gave him the nod and stated that he would work hard to justify the confidence they had given him by accompanying him to pick his nomination form. The MP, who is currently refurbishing the party's constituency office at the cost of about Ghc5,000, commended past NDC MPs for the area - Mr Ishmael Aryeetey, Nii Okaidja Adamafio and Asafoatse Mankattah as well as a constituency chairman, Mr Daniel Nii Okai, for maintaining the office when the party lost the seat, adding that he had been paying for the office rent since 2005 when he took over. Speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on his achievements, Mr Tackie Komme said with education as his top priority, he had furnished most schools in the area with computers to promote the teaching of Information Communication Technology. He added that he would soon be providing 50 computers to selected schools in the constituency including the Bishops Girls School. The MP said he had given scholarships to bright-but-needy pupils and students up to the tertiary level and provided a building for a female ward at the Ussher Polyclinic. He has also provided many other facilities including a water reservoir and renovated the Out Patients Department of the Ussher Maternity Clinic among other social interventions. Mr Tackie Komme stated that with his experience as a Parliamentarian since 2005 he would solicit the support from the management of the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) to provide more school blocks in the area, especially with the abolished Shift System within the Accra Metropolis.