Let’s explore viable economic ventures to support Political Institutions”-NPP Aspirant

The former Upper East Regional First Vice Chairman of the New Patriotic Party NPP, Mr. Isaac Adawele Atasige, has called on all the regional and constituency executives to explore viable economic ventures to support the growth of the party.

Mr. Atasige said the situation where individuals were made to fund the party did not only make it difficult to get funding but also discouraged collective decisions.

He said, it is high time we moved away from allowing individuals to fund the activities of the party so as to avoid the situation where one person would impose his or her decision on us as party executives and members.

He said NPP needs collective decisions to effectively run the activities of the party to make a meaningful impact.

The former Regional First Vice Chairman urged regional and constituency executives to mobilize people at the grassroots to take advantage of various Government interventions including the Planting for food and jobs and the One District One factory initiatives.

He added that the Upper East Region was noted for irrigation  and the people at the grassroots could be mobilized to undertake dry season farming as that would not only help address the unemployment and poverty levels in the area but would also help contribute some amount of resources for the party’s activities.

He said the situation where the regional and constituency executives had to task themselves for resources to attend to issues such as funerals and emergencies could be resolved if the party had its own business running at the regional and constituency levels.

  

The former Regional First Vice Chairman, who is nurturing the ambition to contest for the same position when the party re-opens election this year, expressed regret about the poor performance of the party in the region, during the last Parliamentary election where the party got only three parliamentary seats.

Mr. Atasige indicated that, when he wins the election as the Regional first Vice Chairman he would adopt a strategy to increase the number of parliamentary seats from three to nine and also increase the margin for the presidential as well.

What is needed for the party to win more seats and to win more convincingly for the presidential slot in the region is to conduct post-election audit and to develop a regional strategic plan which will bring everybody on board to chart the way forward.