Let’s sustain unity momentum •Nana tells losing aspirants

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the newly elected flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has paid a reciprocal courtesy call on the three losing aspirants, with a call on party members to sustain the unity and campaign towards winning the 2012 elections.
He said the interest, excitement and confidence that the aspirants’ visit to his residence last Tuesday generated required that the leaders of the party sustain the co-operation to give hope to the people.
Nana Akufo-Addo, in the company of his campaign team, visited Mr Alan Kyerematen at Dome, Mr Isaac Osie at Labone and Prof Kwadwo Frimpong Boateng on the Liberation Road.
At Mr Kyerematen’s residence, the host described the reciprocal visit as a good gesture and reiterated his call that competition was an integral part of the NPP tradition and that after the highest decision-making body of the party had decided, it was incumbent on all to obey and respect that decision.
He said it was incumbent on all members of the party to lend their full support to the flag bearer to ensure a landslide victory for the party in 2012.
He described the flag bearer as his great friend and added that any of their supporters who attempted to fight because of them would be the loser.
Mr Kyerematen said the greatest objective of all members of the party was to win power and that was what they should direct their strengths and minds at.
Mr Osei, who is also the Member of Parliament (MP) for Subin, said after the courtesy call on flag bearer, he (Mr Osei) had met with his constituents and made it clear to the members of the NPP that the election of the flag bearer was over.
He said he had told them that the emphatic win by Nana Akufo-Addo was an indication that the party wanted him as the leader, for which reason all must join the campaign to achieve the ultimate aim of winning the 2012 general election.
He said he had agreed with his constituents on how to work assiduously to ensure that the party increased its votes in the Subin Constituency.
Prof Frimpong-Boateng, for his part, presented the flag bearer with an ostrich egg as a show of appreciation for the visit and also took Nana Akufo-Addo round his backyard garden where he has a jetropha oil refinery and showed his guest how he converted human excreta to cooking gas.
He said Dr Mensa Otabil, the President of the Central University College, had replicated the conversion of human excreta to gas on the Oyibi campus of the university.
Pro Frimpong-Boateng said because of his backyard plantain farm, he had not bought plantain for the past 10 years. Nana Akufo-Addo expressed surprise at what the heart surgeon was doing and commended him.