Spokesman of former foreign Affairs Minister Nana Akuffo Addo’s campaign claims NDC will quake if Nana Akuffo Addo is elected to lead the NPP into the 2008 elections.

"Nana is the only candidate who is admired, respected and at the same time feared by the NDC. He is bold, intelligent and decisive. He would not stand for injustice or unfairness. It is a principle his friends he grew up with in Central Accra and went to school with at Legon all remember him” for the Daily Dispatch newspaper quotes Mustapha Hamid as saying.

The statement comes at the back of a booklet outdoored by the Akuffo Addo Campaign team to market the former foreign affairs minister as the best candidate to lead the NPP in their quest to retain power in 2008.

According to a news monitoring desk report of the Daily Dispatch, Head of Research of the Nana Addo Campaign, Victor Newman, remarks that Nana Addo has not only served the party with distinction, he has leadership qualities to win that big electoral challenge in December 2008.

“He is the only 'complete candidate'. You don't have to like him. You just have to accept that he is the only one you can be sure of delivering and delivering big, period," Victor is quoted in the report

The remarks are contained in the eight-page booklet titled 'Nana Akuffo Addo - The Next Leader'.

Mr. Newman is also quoted as emphasising, "the NPP needs to choose a winnable candidate; someone with vision, proven organisational skills, exceptional political pedigree and unmatched international exposure, who can unite the party and who will easily be accepted by the rank and file of the party and the swing voters among the general electorate. "

FAMILY RECORD

The booklet also digs into Nana’s past and family pedigree.

"Edward Akufo-Addo, his father who became Ghana's third Chief Justice, was later the President of the Second Republic during the Progress Party (PP) government of Prime Minister, Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia, from 1969 to 1972. His father's residence," Betty House, in Korle Wokon in downtown Accra, served as the headquarters of the country's first political party the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC).

Forty years later in 1992, his family's Ringway Hotel became the venue of the weekly press conferences for the NPP. It was there that the New Patriotic Party was launched in 1992. That property was later bombed allegedly by an agent of state security under President Rawlings. "

PUBLIC SERVICE


Nana recalls his time in the Kufuor government and things he said during his vetting for a ministerial position in the booklet.

“I have not changed the view that I expressed at my vetting last year. The most effective foundation for a successful tilt at the presidency by an NPP candidate in 2008 will be the good performance of the Kufuor government between now and then”.

“If the government delivers on its promise of improving the social and economic conditions of the mass of our people, which it can, the work of the next candidate would be considerably lightened. That then is where I want to put my energies for now helping build a Kufuor legacy for 2008. It should be the aim for all of us," he is quoted in the booklet.

Source: Daily Dispatch