The New Patriotic Party (NPP) says it is unleashing a full attack on the strongholds of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in an attempt to win those areas or close the existing gap in the 2008 elections. To that effect, the party has taken delivery of a report conducted by a committee under the supervision of Dr. Mensah Bonsu. The committee was tasked to find out the reasons behind the party’s poor performance in some so-called difficult constituencies. Mustapha Hamid, spokesman for Nana Akufo-Addo, told Joy News’ Matilda Asante on Monday that the report’s content is revealing and shows a bright fortune for the NPP. He said the inroads chalked by the party in those areas are basically owed to the policies of President Kufuor’s administration. He mentioned the National Health Insurance Scheme, the Capitation Grant and development projects executed by the government as some of the projects doing the magic for the NPP. He said the party would continue to exercise a lot of energy and hard work to ensure that “if we are not turning those areas completely in our favour, at least we are able to close the gaps that the NDC gave us in 2004”. “The strategy is constant bombardment, both aerial and ground troop bombardment till the very last day,” Mustapha Hamid said. He noted: “That is the only way that we are going to be able to win this election first round not depending on our traditional strongholds.” When asked if the report was not one of those propaganda tools managed by political parties to deceive the public and whip up supports, he replied, “We would be deluding ourselves only to our own disadvantage. I mean if you are not doing well and you are deluding yourselves that you are doing well, that is your own problem.” He said, “We will like to be faced with the reality, see what it is that we are doing right and not doing right so we can right those things we are not doing right before the time comes.” Mustapha Hamid further noted that Dr. Mensah Bonsu is a distinguished academician like fellow academicians who would “not compromise their positions in that way”. The researchers, he noted, are well trained in all the dynamics of research and statistical tabulation and are very intelligent persons with bachelor and masters degrees to buttress his point that the research was “done with a fair amount of accuracy and intellectual honesty”. Story by Isaac Essel