President Akufo Addo has indicated his disappointment over the inability of the New Patriotic Party to consolidate the gains chalked by the party over the years in the Upper West Region.
The NPP won three parliamentary seats in the 2020 general election, two less than the number won in the 2016 elections.
The president who was on a two day working visit to the Upper West Region to acquaint himself with the problems in the region and to see to what extent government policies were having an impact on the lives of the people.
Speaking at the Wa Naa Palace, President Akufo Addo said he was disappointed in the results of the last election as the number of parliamentary seats held by the NPP reduced from five seats to three seats.
He said the region and the tradition of the political party he represents mean a lot to him adding that, several of the party’s leading founders hailed from there.
He said S.D Dombo, Naa Abayifaa Karbo, Jatoe Kaleo, Mumuni Dumbie and Alhassan Bin Salih hailed from the region. President Akufo-Addo noted that though he won the 2020 general election, he was disappointed by the election results of the region.
“When we went into the election, we had five seats. When election results came, we had lost three and gain one mean we lost seats in the upper west region,” he added.
“I have to confess and it will not be honest on my part if I did not say that I was disappointed in the results of the election in the upper west. When we went into the election we have five seats in the upper west. When the election result came we have lost three and gained one. Wa Naa you know what this region means to me and the people of the political tearoom I represent.”
President Akufo-Addo said that the gift he will want to give the New Patriotic Party (NPP) upon leaving office is to make the party a majority party in the Upper West Region.
“So I want you to help me. The gift that I want to give to the NPP when I leave office in 2025 is that the NPP will the majority party in Upper west region so that when I go to meat my ancestors I have something good to tell them.”
Responding to the request of the Waala overlord to construct two dual carriages in the Wa municipality, the President said his government is committed to constructing 1,500 asphalted roads in the country and roads in Wa will not be left out.
He said his government in his first term has constructed one thousand two hundred asphalted roads in the country; the most by any government in the country.
