Adwoa Safo donates GH¢ 10,000 to NPP

A former parliamentary aspirant for New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Dome-Kwabenya, Ms Adwoa Safo, yesterday donated GH¢10,000 to the party in Accra.
Ms Safo, who lost the NPP parliamentary primary to the incumbent MP, Prof Mike Oquaye, said the cash was in support of the construction of a campaign office at the party’s headquarters for its 2012 presidential flag bearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
Presenting the amount, Ms Safo, a lawyer by profession, described it as “her widow’s mite” towards the building of a formidable campaign to ensure that Nana Akufo-Addo was elected President of Ghana.
“Our prime focus as members of the NPP is to collectively support the NPP leadership to effectively execute the campaign to ensure that we bring Nana Akufo-Addo to office as President in 2012,” she added.
The Chairman of the party, Mr Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey, said the donation was a significant confirmation that the NPP belonged to the teeming members and supporters and urged others to contribute in cash or in kind to complete the office under construction.
He commended the donor for her fortitude, explaining that “although you lost the primary, you have behaved well and, like a good party member, did not go independent”.
He said where there was any political competition, there was bound to be disaffection but it was always up to the winners to be magnanimous in their success and also for the losers to accept their loss in good faith and help execute the overall agenda of the party.
Mr Obetsebi-Lamptey expressed the readiness of the national executive to insist that the right procedures be followed, especially to allow all eligible aspirants to have equal access and a level playing field to participate in the selection of parliamentary aspirants.
He said it was those in the constituencies who knew the persons who could best represent the party and win the seats and not those at the national headquarters and it was for that reason that the constitution had placed the responsibility for electing a candidate on their shoulders.
He gave the assurance that the primaries would be carried out in a manner that would make even the losers maintain their confidence in the process and continue to support the party.
According to the party chairman, the NPP aimed at winning the Presidency, with majority NPP MPs in Parliament and not with independent pro-NPP MPs.