Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, flag-bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has urged Ghanaians to support the Electoral Commission (EC) to conduct the upcoming December elections in a free, fair and transparent manner. He urged the EC to ensure that the elections were conducted in a transparent manner to ensure that the results would be accepted by both winners and losers. Nana Akufo-Addo made the appeal in Tamale on Sunday, when he addressed an enthusiastic and huge crowd at the Jubilee Park on his arrival in the Metropolis to begin his four-day campaign tour of the Northern Region. The crowd had earlier in the afternoon met Nana Addo and his campaign team at the outskirts of Tamale in buses, pick-up vehicles, motor-cycles and on foot, singing the NPP campaign songs and dancing the ‘Kangaroo dance’. Nana Akufo-Addo was accompanied by members of his campaign team and stalwarts of the party including the Vice- President, Alhaji Aliu Mahama; Alhaji Mustapha Ali Idris, Northern Regional Minister; Mr. Yaw Osafo-Maafo, former Minister of Finance; Alhaji Abubakr Saddique Boniface, Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing; Mr. Alan Kyerematen former Trade and Industries Minister and Hajia Alima Mahama, Minister for Women and Children's Affairs. The NPP Flag-bearer told the heavy turn out of people: "Tamale, the heart beat of the Northern Ghana is now the "World Bank" of the NPP". He stressed the need for peace and stability in the country and said there was no need for a single drop of Ghanaian blood to be shed because of the upcoming general elections since the elections were a contest of ideas and not war. Nana Akufo-Addo said the NPP detested and rejects the politics of divide and rule which pitches sections of the Ghanaians against others adding, "We are all Ghanaians, whether Dagomba or Gonja, Mamprusi or Komkomba or Ewe or Akan or Akyem", with a common destiny. He reiterated his pledge to bridge the development gap between the North and the South and explained that if voted into power he would ensure that agriculture was seriously promoted in Northern Ghana to make it the breadbasket of the country. He said this would be done through the construction of several irrigation dams, provision of dams, boreholes and all the necessary agriculture inputs to make farming attractive and rewarding. Nana Akufo-Addo said an NPP government under his leadership would establish a Northern Development Authority directly under the presidency to ensure that all development issues in the northern part of the country were given the necessary attention.