The 2004 National Best Farmer, Madam Efuah Frimpomaah has added her voice to calls to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to choose Mr Isaac Osei, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana COCOBOD, as running-mate of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, NPP presidential candidate. She said since he assumed office as CEO, of the COCOBOD, Mr Osei had transformed the cocoa industry, making it more vibrant and attractive to cocoa farmers in the country. Speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview at Agona Nkum at the weekend, after addressing a farmers’ rally, Madam Frimpomaah said the former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, had the capacity and charisma to lure farmers to vote in the forthcoming election. Madam Frimpomaah, who is also a member of Council of Elders of the Agona West Constituency branch of the NPP, stated that cocoa farmers had benefited a lot since the CEO assumed office and that he was capable of assisting in the provision of quality administration if he was given the nod as running mate. The 2004 National Best Farmer noted that with the sustainability of the mass cocoa spraying exercise, hi-tech and fertilizer credit to the farmers to improve their farms, massive support would come from the farmers for the NPP. According to her, the rehabilitation of all cocoa sheds in the country by the COCOBOD was a major boost to the cocoa industry, which was the backbone of the nation’s economy. She said another area Mr Osei had achieved success was a recent agreement signed between the COCOBOD, government of Ghana and some development partners, to construct major roads in cocoa growing areas. Madam Frimpomaah stressed that the CEO when given the nod would not need so much marketing, adding that already Mr Osei had travelled the length and breath of the country to interact with cocoa farmers to know their problems. In another development, Nana Okyere Kwaako V, a prominent cocoa farmer in the Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District, has also recommended Mr Osei to be chosen as running-mate to Nana Akufo Addo. He said Mr Osei’s administration had made the cocoa industry more lively and eye-catching to Ghanaians farmers, saying “many big men in the cities and towns have now returned to their villages to cultivate massive cocoa farms to boost the industry.Source: GNA