AN INITIATIVE by the Central Regional Youth Wing of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) to seek more votes in the 2012 general elections seems to be gaining approval from grassroots and virgin voters in the region.
The initiative, dubbed �Atta Bone Ben�, has brought the party to the limelight since party paraphernalia and posters of Nana Akufo-Addo, the flag bearer, and other aspiring parliamentary candidates are sighted at every corner of the region.
An observation by DAILY GUIDE for the past three months in the region has revealed that the NPP, through its 2012 campaign message, has won the hearts of the electorate, especially virgin voters.
In an exclusive interview over the weekend with the Central Regional Youth Organizer of the NPP, Francis Ejaku Donkoh revealed that �Atta Bone Ben� was aimed at bringing the youth in the region together to register their displeasure and disappointment about the way the President Mills was driving the nation on rough roads.
��Atta Bone Ben� is to put �sleeping� President Mills on his toes and remind him of the numerous promises he made to the people in the region which has not yet been accomplished. We want to remind him that by his own words and actions, he will lose the seat of Presidency come 2012,� he stated.
He indicated that the region had not benefitted from its share of the national cake even though President Mills was an illustrious son from the Central region.
He hinted that President Mills, in his 2008 campaign message, promised to construct the Cape Coast Sport Stadium, construct a fly-over at Pedu junction, among others but these things had not been done.
Mr. Donkoh noted that instead of President Mills to continue the good works of former President Kufuor, he had rather collapsed almost all of them.
The regional youth organizer alleged that due to President Mills� incompetence, the nation lost GH� 51 million to Alfred Woyome in other to finance his 2012 campaign. He added that if NDC did not fight hard to take the money back for Ghanaians, the NPP would surely do that.
He revealed that such huge sums of money could support the provision of free secondary school education as promised by the NPP�s flag bearer, construct more highways comparable to the George W. Bush highway, as well as provide portable and sufficient water and electricity to improve the standard of living of Ghanaians.
Mr. Donkoh therefore appealed to Ghanaians to go all out and register during the biometric registration exercise to obtain their voters ID cards in order to vote for Nana Akufo-Addo and other NPP parliamentary candidates in their various constituencies.
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