As part of the measures fashioned out by the defeated New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate for the 2008 general elections to recapture the party�s top slot for the second time running, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has restrategised.
This time around, he has started an open door-to-door policy where he personally meets party stalwarts and foot soldiers on daily basis at his plush Nima offices, in Accra.
It would be recalled that, in the run-up to the 2008 general elections, nana Akufo-Addo was accused of being arrogant and not in touch with the people by his own party faithfuls.
This assertion, even though agents in the Akufo-Addo campaign team denied, it was attested to in the book written by Dr Arthur Kennedy, the campaign director for the 2008 Akufo-Addo campaign. The book, which was entitled �Chasing the elephant into the bush,� among other things revealed that members of the Akufo-Addo campaign team had difficulties in having access to the presidential candidate.
In the bid to throw this assertion behind himself and project his ambitions as a humble lawyer and a political leader, the defeated presidential candidate of the NPP has embarked on his open door-to-door policy to prove to his teeming supporters of the party that he is not arrogant as has been described by his political opponents.
Nana Akufo-Addo, according to credible sources, has shun the services of his numerous aides, and he is now meeting party supporters personally to be able to project his ambitions as the only candidate to beat in the up-coming NPP presidential congress to elect a flagbearer for the 2012 presidential elections, which some political pundits have described it as mother of all elections.
The sources further stated that the decision by the 2008 NPP flagbearer to embark on his door-to-door policy is also to avoid the situation where every Akyem native considered himself or herself as his campaign aide, thereby creating a myth around him.
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