Biney eyes NPP Ablekuma South seat

ONE of the four aspiring parliamentary candidates for New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Ablekuma South, Mr Charles Biney, has asked the delegates to the primaries to vote for him because he holds the key to rescuing the seat for the party in 2012.
He noted that apart from his personal attributes that made him the best for the constituency, he believed that the constituency should not vote for a candidate who would easily attract a lot of negative attacks and could stand on his feet to articulate his vision and what the party stood for.
Mr Biney was interacting with the Daily Graphic prior to the launch of his campaign at the party’s constituency office near the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital today.
He mentioned some of his personal features as being very attractive to voters within the NPP, the NDC and even floating voters, his hatred for personality attacks and good working relations with all.
He urged the delegates to beware of the enormity of the task ahead of them and realise that their decision on April 30, would have a great bearing on the party’s ability to win the seat or not and they should also consider how the person they would select would attract more votes to ensure that the party won the presidential elections as well.
Mr Biney, who declared his intention to contest the seat in 2006 but had to abandon that move, said the party did not lose the seat in 2008 but alleged that the NDC was able to steal the verdict from the NPP because the then candidate had a bad working relations with the NPP executive.
He explained that the situation culminated in the executives not being vigilant and committed in policing the votes till the results were declared.
“This is the main reason why the delegates must vote for Charles Biney who is the unifier,” he added.
Touching on his vision, he said they included hatred for poverty, revulsion for “apartheid” type of educational system in Ghana and the protection of the environment for healthy living.
Explaining the vision, he said the current educational system was not favouring brilliant, needy children, especially at the primary and the university levels because those from poor homes have been sidelined from benefiting from education due to the cost involved.
He said unfortunately, most of these children had become school drop out and when they wanted to make ends meet by selling on the streets, the same system that had made them so would use brutal force to get them off the street, “this situation means that the country was breeding more armed robbers and prostitutes.”
Mr Biney described the increasing threat of ethnocentrism in the politics of the country as more dangerous than the arms, ammunitions and other deadly weapons that were used in war situations and that it was high time politicians refrained from funning such unfortunate phenomenon.
As an environmental consultant, Mr Biney expressed worry about the amount of dangerous gases that were released into the atmosphere by industries, hospitals and vehicles but had not attracted the attention of the authorities.
He added that these and other issues bordering on the welfare of the people in his constituency as well as the proper recognition for the party members who had been participating in party activities would be his prime concern if he is given the mandate to contest the seat on the party’s ticket and win the ultimate national election.