The acting Women's Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Hajia Mariam Sinare, has called for a healthy campaign to ensure that the party emerges the winner in the coming congress. Hajia Sinare, who is competing for the National Women's Organiser post, said the interest of the party was important, and therefore, delegates should not under any circumstance succumb to financial or material influence in order to vote against their preferred choices. She said women would be her prime focus to ensure that they were properly taken care of if she won, and to also help the party to mobilise and deliver, as well as bring more women on board. Speaking to the Daily Graphic during her tour of the Western Region, Hajia Sinare said "If you are influenced by money or gifts to vote against your will, you will not be in the position to question the wrongdoing of the person because he or she has bought you out of your right to speak against them." "Our party upholds the intrinsic worth of morality, accountability and transparency, therefore, there should be no room for material or financial influence in our campaign but rather we should all ensure a healthy crusade,” she said. She said the party came to power based on the submissive and human-centred posture of its leader, Professor John Evans Atta Mills; "Prof. campaigned with a clear message of a better Ghana and not financial or gift-giving campaign. Let us follow the footsteps of Prof." Therefore "if we want to contest various positions in the party we have to make sure that people are made to choose freely, based on their own conviction and what the delegates made of the message of various candidates". Hajia Sinare, who was the First Deputy Women Organiser during the 2008 campaign that brought the National Democratic Congress to power, said she would not play down the strength of other contenders but rather focus on messages that would ensure that delegates voted for her. She observed that during the last election in 2008, one of the things that won power for the party was the indomitable will of the women who had strong conviction that NDC was worth voting for. "Therefore, if I get the nod, I would continue to work tirelessly to improve the fortunes of the party to ensure that we do not only maintain our strength but improve on it," she said. "I will be constantly committed to the needs of women and ensure that as we did for the party to win the trust of women during the 2008 elections, the trend continues," she said. She said women played very important roles in organisation and mobilisation. "We have won an election and we cannot wait for the next election to start campaigning. The time is now. We have to work as a team to ensure that we peacefully and gracefully elect people to various positions devoid of influence of any form" Hajia Sinare said. "By the grace of Allah, I am very sure of wining the position of the National Women Organiser and to work for the party throughout the country, I will be part of the Team 2012 for real,” she added. Source: Daily Graphic