The New Patriotic Party (NPP) youth wing will soon embark on a nationwide task to register young voters to join the party. The exercise will be executed with the support of all youth organisers in the regions, constituencies and polling stations across the country. According to Mr Anthony Abayifaa Karbo, the NPP National Youth Organiser, the youth had noted with concern the increasing number of voters in the country and was motivated by this to urge them to be members of the party. This programme, he indicated, would be done with the intention to register each and every member of the youth who sympathises with the NPP. Out of the total number of votes cast in 2008 over 63 per cent of it represented the youth and it will therefore be politically suicidal if we do not make the youth an integral, part of our campaign for 2012. He said it was the view of the youth wing to make the NPP very attractive to young people especially the rural youth scattered across the country. “With reference to the above it is therefore clear that the era of the one man show at the youth wing is over and we need the total participation of each and every member to join in the campaign as we look forward to a massive victory in 2012,” he declared. The youth wing has therefore decided to register at least 85 percent of our youth members and issue them with their ID Cards before we even begin the "official" campaign for 2012, he stated. The youth organiser believes that with such a data, communication will be much easier since research had shown that each and every member in the youthful bracket had either a mobile phone or access the internet. This he said would make the sending of bulk text messages and web messages very simple. With this, the youth across the country will be much informed about party activities and programmes. It will also make communication between our members/sympathisers more effective thus enhancing decision-making to be all inclusive be it in the youth wing or the entire party. According to Mr Karbo, during his campaign to be the National Youth Organiser of NPP, he made a pledge to the youth of Ghana that "we will run the office together and if we fail, we will fail together. I therefore urge the youth to make themselves available when the programme starts and to cooperate with the task force. If they don't come to us, we will go to them, in their houses, churches, schools and where ever they hang around to bring them into the one and only Osono-Family,” he added. Source: Daily Graphic