Mahama terminates Northern Region tour to curb turmoil in Volta Region, says NPP executive
A source within the NPP has disclosed that the former president John Dramani Mahama is under intense pressure from Volta regional executives of the NDC
John Dramani Mahama, the presidential candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), has been compelled to stop his tour of the five Northern regions in order to save the NDC in the Volta Region.
The former president, according to Fifi Amediku, an NPP executive in Volta, is under intense pressure from the NDC’s Volta regional executives to intervene quickly and save them from the inroads that the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mahamudu Bawumia, has made in Volta.
“The Volta Region is falling into the hands of the NPP. This is very worrying, and the NDC has appealed to President Mahama to end his tour in the North and come here, else [the party is] in trouble,” said Fifi Amediku, an NPP executive in the Volta Region who is abreast of ongoing discussions in the NDC.
“The NPP has done a lot of work in the region, including roads, schools, markets and other infrastructure. Just look at the Eastern Corridor road and the work we have done.
“The people are happy with these projects, and they know that if they don’t do anything about this, their numbers will go down considerably,” Amediku said.
Looming danger
Even though Dr Bawumia is yet to campaign in the Volta Region, his regional constituency and other executives are doing well with propagating their achievements.
“It is believed that if Mahama doesn’t precede Bawumia and waits for the vice-president to come here to campaign before him, what has happened to NDC in the five regions of the North will happen to [the party] in the Volta Region,” Amediku said.
The NDC’s flagbearer, according to NPP insiders in the Volta Region, has heeded the call to cancel his Northern tour in order to curb the danger looming in Volta.
“The NDC is collapsing here and the party rank and file believe that Mahama must come and save them, lest they are likely to suffer the most humiliating defeat in the history of the Volta Region,” Fifi Amediku said.
“The MP for Hohoe, [John Peter] Amewu, has done so much for his people within the past few years as compared to the NDC MPs in the region. This has made the traditional NDC supporters angry.
“They are saying that they have been taken for granted for the many years they have been voting for the NDC.
“The NDC is likely to lose additional seats to the NPP in the region, looking at what Amewu has done for his people in the region,” Amediku said.
Reporting by Wilberforce Asare in Accra
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