The Campaign Manager for the 2012 Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Boakye Kyerematen Agyarko, has revealed that the party will set up a 20-man can- vassing team at each of the 21,032 polling stations across the country in readiness for the 2012 general election. He made this known when he addressed members of the Northern Regional NPP executive as well as winners and losers of the just ended parliamentary primaries, in Tamale as part of the post-primary solidarity tour dubbed, “All hands on deck”, being embarked upon by the NPP leadership. Boakye Agyarko stated that there would be a 20-man campaign team in every polling area, made up of the five polling station executives, 10 others to be chosen by the presidential candidate and an additional five to be selected by the parliamentary candidate. He added that the campaign to be embarked upon by the NPP from now till the 2012 general election would mainly be driven by the politics of the community, with polling station executives and electoral area coordinators serving as the nucleus of volunteers in their respective communities who would give their time to support the party to win in 2012. Constituency executive members will also play an active supervisory role and ensure that everything pertaining to the campaign goes according to plan in the polling stations within their constituencies. Parliamentary candidate in every constituency will serve as the chairman of the constituency campaign team, whilst the constituency chairman will serve as vice chairman of the campaign team. The chairperson of constituency council of elders will also be a member of the constituency campaign team, together with 5 others to be selected by Nana Akufo-Addo, in consultation with the parliamentary candidate. The National Chairman of the NPP, Jake Otanka Obeisebi-Lamptey, and the General Secretary, Mr. Owusu Afriyie, also addressed the executive members present. A majority of the elected parliamentary candidates, including Alhaji Boniface Abubakar Sadique for Salaga, Alhaji Zakaria Yakubu for Yapei Kusawgu, Alhaji Mohammed Habib Tijani for Yendi and Mr. Saani Sayibu for Mion, were present at the function. Source: Daily Graphic