Ms Christine Churcher, an aspiring National Women Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has said the 2012 polls would not be a joke and the NPP would need strong, committed, patriotic land loyal people to form a formidable team to win back power. She, however, cautioned that in "our search for dedicated and committed persons to form a winning team, we should not lose sight of the involvement of women". "There is no constituency anywhere that is bigger than women's constituency", Ms Churcher said. "When a woman understands a message and wants to preach it, her husband will listen and everybody will also listen". Ms Churcher said this at the Upper West Regional Delegates Conference of the NPP held in Wa. The delegates elected a 10 member executive for the party to manage its affairs for the next four years. Madam Churcher said the election of executives should not be done on trial basis but by voting for those who had been tested and found worthy to reach out to the people to win back power for the NPP. Mr Lord Commey, the National Organiser of the NPP, commended party supporters in the region for working hard to win three seats for the party in the 2008 election. "To move from one seat in 2000 election to three seats in 2008 is a remarkable achievement", he said, and told them to work harder to improve on the number of seats in the 2012 election. Twenty-four people contested for 10 executive positions and Alhaji Abubakar Abdul-Rahman retained his position as the Regional Chairman. He polled 122 votes to defeat Mr Eddy Kaleonaa Tizzala and Mr Mogtari Sahanoon, a former Upper West Regional Minister, who polled 70 and six votes respectively. The first, Vice-chairmanship post went to Mr Ismail Mada, an educationist, who won with 93 ballots, followed by Mr Bawah Bismark with 61 votes and Mr Abubakari Bawa, who had 45 votes. Source: GNA