The Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP) says it is targeting to win 2.5 million votes in the Ashanti region in next year’s presidential election.

Leader of the party, Dr. Henry Lartey, has dismissed suggestions that the target is unrealistic.

The Ashanti Region is known to be the 'world bank' of the opposition New Patriotic Party.

In the 2012 elections the total registered voters in the Ashanti Region stood at 2,577,122. However the total voter turnout on the day of the election was 2,160,920.

The New Patriotic Party garnered over 1 million votes in the region in the last election but the GCPP is promising to sweep all the votes in the region with an audacious 2.5 million votes.

The GCPP leader is confident that voters in the Ashanti region will respond to the call because the party’s agriculture-based policy will benefit majority of the people who are farmers.

“We are conquering Ashanti. We’ve actually come and we have conquered a lot it already. I’m telling you that the GCPP, Great Consolidated Popular Party is actually winning the Ashanti Region and we are gunning 2.5 million votes…the rest can be shared among the rest the other parties,” Dr. Lartey said optimistically.  

He said he is on the ground, going door to door, and he is confident the party’s mantra of domestication will solve their problems. 

Henry Lartey who represented his party in the 2012 elections polled a total of 38,250 votes representing 0.35%.

That figure is less than the total votes garnered by the NPP or the NDC in just one of their constituencies.