The entire Koforidua township was lit on Saturday evening.
This was when Vice President Bawumia and members of his campaign team stormed the area.
Even before Dr. Bawumia arrived there, the entire township had been covered with the blue, white and red colours of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), with every inch of space covered by over enthusiastic party supporters who had taken over the streets and pavements.
From the streets of Jumapo where he met and greeted people, through Effiduase where he had a stakeholders engagement at the local Presby church, to the Asokore Methodist school park where he had a ‘community connect’, and finally ended at the famous Jackson Park, hordes of people had lined up along the road waving NPP flags amid the chanting of the party’s slated position on the ballot paper, ‘number one’, and what has become its slogan for this Saturday’s crucial election, ‘it is possible’.
Jackson Park was full to capacity, with virtually no space unoccupied, with the streets leading to the place and surrounding it all choked with human activity amid drumming and dancing.
It was an interesting sight to behold when Dr. Bawumia arrived at the Jackson Park.
The entire place went agog, with people literally falling over themselves to catch a glimpse of the man.
His security detail and the local police did not have it easy meandering through the thick crowd to the stage.
The atmosphere got charged and electrified when he walked up stage to wave at the sea of heads.
Dr. Bawumia and the party’s parliamentary candidate for New Juaben South, who is also the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP), Michael Okyere Baafi, touted the many infrastructural and development projects implemented by the NPP administration, and asked Ghanaians to vote for the NPP today during the special voting exercise and on December 7 when the entire nation goes to the polls to elect a President and 276 MPs.
Prior to visiting Koforidua, the NPP flagbearer was in the Afram Plains, where he promised to invest more in the country’s agricultural sector when elected president.
Addressing a rally at Maame Krobo in the Afram Plains South Constituency in the Eastern Region, Dr. Bawumia said the plan will include ensuring that each district will have an Agricultural Mechanisation Scheme, which would serve as equipment and training hub for farmers.
The Afram Plains area, he mentioned, will not be excluded from this initiative, particularly when the area has the potential to become a food basket for Ghana.
“You have lots of arable lands and water here at Afram Plains, so here can become the bread basket for the whole nation…,” he said.
He said farmers in the Afram Plains area will be trained and equipped to go into large scale farming, to enable them produce more than enough food to feed the country.
Dr. Bawumia said the government has so far been developing various irrigation systems in the area.
“We are also working on irrigation schemes in various areas here, we will allocate the lands to various farmers to till and grow crops there… there’ll be need to cart the foodstuff to markets centres as well, so I will be constructing the road from Ekye to Amedoke to ease the burden of farmers,” he added.
On his part, the Krontihene of Forifori, Nana Krobea Asante, entreated parents and guardians in particular to vote for candidates who will protect the future of their kids and also bring about development, like Dr. Bawumia.
By Charles Takyi-Boadu
