Dr Bawumia tours Agona West, East and Gomoa Central to canvas for votes

The Vice President and Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party, (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has toured Agona East, West and Gomoa Central Constituencies to solicit for votes in the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections.

Addressing the chiefs and the people of Nsaba in the Agona East constituency, Dr Bawumia noted that the former president failed to live up to expectations and Ghanaians voted him out of power.

He called on the people of Agona east to vote massively for him as president and Ms Hannah Asamoah as MP, to continue their good policies and programmes , adding that the NPP government had rolled out agenda 111 hospitals and constructed new courts in over 100 districts nationwide to bring judicial delivery services to the doorsteps of the people.

The Vice President said through digitalisation, the government had eliminated ghost workers from payrolls that had saved the nation thousands of cedis from SSNIT and other government institutions.

Moreover, Dr Bawumia said if Ghanaians voted for him as president, he would change the current chieftaincy act to bring chiefs closer to government and would also pay living allowances to paramount and divisional chiefs and queen mothers.

He assured the chiefs and the people that if voted into power he would create one million jobs for the youth through digitalisation where many youth could work in UK, USA and Canada and other countries without travelling outside.

Okeseku Afari Mintah lll, the Omanhene of Agona Nsaba Tradition Area commended the government for good social interventions created that had impacted positively in the lives of the people and appealed to Dr Bawumia to help construct roads and complete dormitories at secondary schools.

At Nyakrom in the Agona West constituency, Dr Bawumia held meetings with stakeholders where he called on them to vote for him as president and Mr Chris Arthur as MP to help bring more infrastructure and human development to the area.

Dr Bawumia endorsed Mr Arthur as the only parliamentary candidate in the Agona West and called on the supporters to vote for him to enhance better living standards of the area, saying the NDC led by John Mahama as presidential candidate in 2024 elections had nothing to give Ghanaians.

In response to the petition made by Okofo Katakyi Eku, the Omanhene of Agona Nyakrom Tradition Area, about the creation of Agona Central District for Nyakrom, Dr Bawumia gave form assurance that it would be done to facilitate development.

He pledged to complete the construction of dormitories in secondary schools at Nyakrom in order to enhance quality teaching and learning.

At Aboso in the Gomoa Central constituency, Dr Bawumia addressed teeming supporters of the party and held stakeholders meeting with the chiefs, health workers, Ghana Education Service workers, artisans , clergy, imams, tailors and dressmakers and Queen mothers to seek their concerns and needs to see how best to solve their problems.

Dr Bawumia introduced the MP and PC for Gomoa Central, Mrs Naana Eyiah Quansah to the chiefs and the people, and asked them to vote massively for her and himself in the upcoming elections on December 7, 2024.

The chief of Gomoa Akropong, Nana Odoom Amanfo I, on behalf of the chiefs commended the vice or and President Akufo Addo’s government for the construction of roads in the area and further praised them for providing DRIP to Gomoa Central Assembly.

The chief appealed to the vice president to construct a nursing training college in the Gomoa Central District to admit the numerous SHS graduates who had travel somewhere to struggle for admission.

The Vice President was accompanied by Mr Kwambena Adjei Adjapong, Mr Alexander Kwabena Adenta-Markin, Mr Kwadwo Ansafoa Poku, Mrs Justina Marigold Assan, Central Regional Minister and other leading members of the party. GNA