Mrs Rebecca Akufo Addo, wife of New Patriotic Party (NPP) flag-bearer, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo, has said that she would advocate issues that affect women and children, when she becomes the first lady. She has therefore appealed to the electorate to give the NPP the mandate in the December 7, presidential and parliamentary elections. Mrs Akufo Addo said this when she addressed women groups and supporters of the NPP in Okere and Akropong constituencies as part of her tour of the Eastern Region to solicit votes for the party. She and her entourage received a rousing welcome when she arrived at Adukrom at about 1730 hours amidst singing, dancing and drumming with commercial activities virtually at a stand still. The newly formed Patriotic Ladies Club in their beautiful cloth added more colour to the occasion. She said women and children were the most vulnerable in society and for that matter issues concerning them would be given the needed attention. Mrs Akufo Addo said President Kufour had laid a solid economic and political foundation that required a visionary leader like her husband to continue with “the unfinished business”. She said when the NPP is returned into power, Ghanaians will not be disappointed in its bid to transform the economy into a middle income status. Mrs Akufo Addo said the numerous policies of the NPP government over the past seven and half years such as the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Capitation Grant, School Feeding Programme and construction of roads in rural areas and other infrastructural projects were clear manifestation that the government had done well and urged Ghanaians to return it to power come December 07. Earlier, she and her entourage paid a courtesy call on Nana Otutu Kono III chief of Adukrom and other chiefs from Okere. Nana Otutu Kono III commended the government for the numerous projects the area had benefited from since 2001. Among the entourage were Mr Dan Botwe, parliamentary candidate for Okere constituency, Mr Yaw Gyekye Amoabeng, Eastern Regional chairman of the party, Mr Alecs Agobo, regional secretary of the NPP and other women leaders of the party. Source: GNA