President Akufo-Addo has urged the Chiefs and people of the Upper East Region to look favourably on the government of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) by voting massively for him and the party’s parliamentary candidates on December 7.

“What I am, respectfully asking of you is that this time around the Upper East looks favorably on the elephant party and helps us become the majority party in the Upper East,” he said.

Addressing a meeting of the Upper East Regional House of Chiefs on Thursday, Nana Akufo-Addo stated that the Upper East Region has, since the advent of the 4^th Republic, not looked favourably on the NPP either in the presidential or parliamentary elections.

“The three Presidential candidates of my party, Prof. Adu Boahen, John Agyekum Kufuor, and I have never won the majority of the popular votes in the Upper East region and, indeed, our party has not fared well in the parliamentary elections either, only three out of the 15 seats of the Region are currently in the possession of the NPP,” he said.

President Akufo-Addo told the Upper East Regional House of Chiefs that, in the three and half years that he has been in office, he has had the opportunity to manifest to the Ghanaian people the honesty with which he made the promises of 2016 to them.

"NPP is a performing government that has fulfilled the overwhelming majority of its commitments to the Ghanaian people, and has shown its determination to work in the interest of all the peoples of Ghana without discrimination," he said.

Having only served as Attorney General and Foreign Minister in the Government of President Kufuor, the President told the House that, prior to the 2016 election, he no record to put before the Ghanaian people.

“I had no record as a President to put before the Ghanaian people, and that is why I made a series of promises to the Ghanaian people that if they gave me the chance, with the blessing of the Almighty, there are certain things that I will do.”

In Akufo-Addo's determination to woe the people, he stressed that it was the acceptance of those promises, and the poor governance of the then Mahama administration which led the Ghanaian people to give him the resounding victory of December 7, 2016.

“Today, I am no longer in the position I was in 2016. I have had nearly 4 years of being responsible for the conduct of the governance of this country. So, in 2020, I am going to the people, not just with promises but with my record in governance.”

In counting on his solid record of performance in office, he told the Chiefs that he has dealt with the Ghanaian people honestly.

"It is important to me that I should be seen to be a man of integrity. A man who did not come to deceive the Ghanaian people but came to assist in the development of our nation,” he said.

Akufo-Addo, appealed to the Chiefs and people of the House to vote massively for him and the 15 NPP parliamentary candidates, “so that the cry which is abroad in our country today of ‘4 More for Nana’ becomes the cry of the Upper East region as well.”