William N-Lanjerborr Jalulah
13 January 2009
Navrongo — SUPPORTERS AND sympathisers of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), in the Navrongo Central Constituency, led by their defeated parliamentary candidate in the just ended parliamentary elections, Mark Woyongo, last Saturday set the constituency agog, when they poured onto the streets to celebrate the victory of the party in the December elections.
The supporters started the mammoth celebration from Nayagnia, a village near Navrongo, through the Bolgatanga Navrongo trunk road, to the Palace of the Nayagnia Chief, Pio Andrew Pwamang.
The Chief thanked the supporters and leadership of the NDC for acknowledging him, and his people, in time of the party's victory.
The celebration then continued to the Navrongo Chief's Palace, where the caretaker of the palace, Arthur Belinia Adda, urged the leadership of the NDC in the constituency, to settle all fracas that exists between supporters of the NDC and New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Before converging at the constituency party office, where the supporters were addressed by their leaders, they marched through the township of Navrongo, amidst jubilation, which was led on by all kinds of music, including the NPP campaign song, 'Go High' and the slogan, "We are moving forward."
Some supporters were also seen clad in NPP paraphernalia and party T-shirts. These, the supporters said, were symbols of the unity and love that they wanted to exist between them and their opponents.
Addressing the enthusiastic supporters and sympathisers of the NDC, as well as some PNC and CPP members, Mr. Woyongo told them that victory for the NDC was victory for Ghana.
He observed that Navrongo was politically polarised, and until amends were made, there would not be peace and development.
He, therefore, urged the people to put their political affiliations behind them, and forge ahead for unity and development.
The defeated parliamentary candidate said the number one enemy in the area, and the entire region at large, was poverty, which everybody's effort was needed to help fight.
Mr. Woyongo, who praised himself for giving the sitting Member of Parliament (MP), Mr. Joseph Adda, a hot race in the parliamentary election, asked that if he inadvertently offended anyone during his campaign, they should forgive him, since he had forgiven all those who might have offended him, during that same period.
When he was questioned later by reporters, on which ministerial position he would prefer to hold, after it was rumoured that he would be given a position, Mr. Woyongo said he would prefer the position of a Regional Minister in his region.
This, he said, could draw him closer to his people, so that he could mend all the old cracks which have affected the development of the area.
He would also ensure harmony between the Mr. Adda and the Chief of Navrongo, because the two were supposed to be partners in development.
He promised he to settle all chieftaincy disputes in the region, and entice investors to unearth the potentials that abound in the region.
He would also focus on agriculture, to reduce the high level of poverty in the region.
Touching on his party's structures in the region, Mr. Woyongo pledged to reorganise them, so that they would perform their duties as expected.
Mr. Woyongo said politics was about numbers, and expressed the party's readiness to accept all its members who defected to the NPP, before the December polls.
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