Several aspirants in the upcoming primaries of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ashanti region over the weekend intensified their campaign, DAILY GUIDE has learnt.
The sudden improvement in campaign activities started after the NPP presidential candidate for the 2016 elections, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo delivered what political pundits described as ‘peace speech.’
Prior to the reconciliatory speech by Nana Akufo-Addo, the campaign in the Ashanti region had been uninteresting.
According to sources in the party, most of the aspirants feared that the uproar in the party recently could have resulted in the postponement of nationwide primaries of the NPP.
Due to this, most of the aspirants intentionally reduced their campaign activities, but the trend changed suddenly after Nana Addo’s reconciliatory speech.
The paper’s check in the various constituencies revealed that 138 aspirants, including 11 females, who are contesting for 44 seats in the region, fully campaigned over the weekend.
The aspirants, including sitting MPs, reportedly met the party’s delegates again in their various constituencies where they explained their vision and plans for the party.
Aspirants in Nhyiaeso, Bantama, Oforikrom, Asawase, Kwadaso, Suame, Asokwa, among others, were very active.
The aspirants, who do not have much time, were said to have engaged the delegates in series of meetings to canvass support.
DAILY GUIDE gathered that some of the meetings even travelled deep into the night in some of the constituencies, as the aspirants tried to garner more votes in a bid to represent the people in Parliament on the ticket of the NPP in 2016.
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