A 40-year old businessman, Mr Hassan Ayariga today picked his nomination forms to contest the flag bearership position of the People's National Convention (PNC) for the 2012 general election with a promise to make the party the best choice for the Ghanaian voter.
He stated that he would not only pick the forms and win the flagbearer ship only to go and sleep but would campaign vigirously in every nook cranny of the country to ensure that the party wins the 2012 elections.
Mr Ayariga, who together with some of his supporters wearing T shirts bearing his picture, walked from the Kwame Nkrumah Circle to the party's national headquarters at the Abavana Junction in Accra before submitting his forms. He occasionally stood on his Hammer vehicle to respond to cheers from passengers and others.
Briefing the media just after picking the forms, he indicated jsut as the world over political parties were selecting young and enterprising persons who have led their political parties and won elections the PNC would do same at its congress by selecting him as the presidentials candidate.
He gave the example of President Barrack Obama of the USA, Prime Minister David Cameron of UK and the Russian Pime Minister Dmitry Medvedev of Russia as some of the young people who have changed the cause of history as young leaders.
Mr Ayariga who holds a BSc degree in Business Administration from the Atlantic University, Hawaii in the USA promised to inject dynamism, massive membership drive and the introduction of a programme of action that would propel the party to win the 2012 elections as welll as possess majority seats in Parliament.
He paid glowing tribute to other young persons like the party's General Secretary, Mr Bernard Mornah who had performed extraordinarily well as compared with other older persons in other parties
Mr Ayariga who served as the party's Chairman in Germany for six years said under his leadership as the flag bearer and leader of the party, the youth in the country would be inspired and informed about why they should support the PNC.
Mr Ayariga expressed worry at the hardship most Ghanaians were going through which he attributed to the inability of the current and successive governments to roll out effective policies and programmes that would ameliorate the problems and assured that with a PNC government, both and human resources would be judiciously used for the benefit of all Ghanaians.
Earlier, Mr Mornah briefed the press about the guidelines developed by the party for the Sunyani congress which included the fact that all aspiring candidates to any position must meet the requisite qualification of the 1992 constitution.
"No candidate or his or her followers will, acting in the name of the candidate obstruct, disrupt or in any way whatsoever, interfere with a meeting or any campaign activity of another candidate. All candidates must at all times cooperate fully with the congress and vetting committees of the party," he said.
He also urged all candidates to caution their followers not to remove or destroy or disfigure the posters and other campaign material of other candidates and also no branch, regional and constituency officers would declare open support for any aspirant.
He added that although campaign teamns were encouraged to be set for the purorses of executing campaigns prior to the delegates congress, candidates and their supporters should desist from forming factional groups.
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