A significant number of youth sympathetic to the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the North Tongu Constituency in the Volta Region have defected to the camp of an Independent Parliamentary aspirant, Mr. Christopher Kofi Eleblu.
The disillusioned supporters claimed the NDC cannot win the North Tongu parliamentary seat in the December 7, 2016 general elections due to the divide-and-rule tactics adopted by the NDC constituency executives.
The youth stated that their intelligence gathered have revealed that the executives were not ready for victory of the NDC in the December 7, 2016 polls but rather working for their parochial interest.
In that regard, the NDC youth called on the people in the area to turn up on Wednesday December 7, 2016 and vote massively for Mr. Eleblu to the wrestle the seat from the incumbent NDC Member of Parliament (MP) Samuel Okudjeto Ablakwah.
The NDC youth made this call to the journalists when they joined a health walk organised by supporters and sympathizers of Mr. Eleblu over the weekend at Juapong Traditional Area.
"We are supporting Mr. Elebu because we find it extremely difficult to understand why Mr. Eleblu who is a popular National Democratic Congress member was disqualified by the leadership of the NDC from contesting the ruling NDC parliamentary primaries for any wrong doing. We share the vision of Mr. Eleblu “Business, Business, Business for wealth creation.”
"So this year's December election it is going to be a great change in our voting line in the North Tongu which will be historic.We are going to vote skirt and blouse, i.e. we would vote for John Dramani Mahama for President and vote for Mr. Christopher Kofi Eleblu as the Member of Parliament for North Tongu," the NDC youth who wear President John Dramani Mahama 2016 campaign T-Shirts told journalists at Juapong during the health walk.
According to the youth, they have seen that the area was under developed although they had been voting for the NDC MPs, emphasizing on the lack of access to potable water, non-availability of police stations, no proper market centres, poor road networks, lack of toilet facilities and lack of educational infrastructures.
They NDC youth expressed happiness with Mr. Eleblu’s promise to build the business environment in North Tongu so as to create wealth, saying that they believe Mr. Eleblu’s vision will reduce the rate of unemployment in the area.
When he mounted the podium to address his teeming supporters at Juapong Methodist School, Mr. Eleblu confirmed that he had filed his nomination forms at the Electoral Commission (EC) office at Adidome to contest the December 7, 2016 polls as an independent parliamentary candidate.
He told the large crowd that he was satisfied with the manner in which the EC officials led by Mr. Samuel Bansah went about the filling of the nomination exercise, stressing that he went through the exercise without any difficulty and that everything was set for a healthy competition against his mother party, the NDC.
Mr. Eleblu, who was described by his supporters as “the man of bright future of North Tongu” assured the people of North Tongu that he had decided to compete in the race to enable him to rescue the people from under development and to reduce the high level of poverty among the people.
“Look, I have decided to stand for election as an MP with the greater responsibility of ensuring that the individual person's living conditions improve through my vision creating business opportunity to the people of the area”.
“He or she would have a positive feeling that his business is growing and mobilizing enough money in his pocket that would enable him or her life more comfortably than the current suffering that they are confronted with,” he emphasized.
He explained that it was not economically sound for new classrooms to be built for the people while parents continued to live under severe hardship.
"With my development agenda or slogan which is "Business, Business, Business," many of the electorate have embraced me and as a result, I currently having large followers who cut across the political divide because there were people from his former party NDC among others, who were campaigning for him and President John Dramani Mahama and other presidential candidates.
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