Efforts by the ruling New Patriotic Party to break the 8 in this year’s general elections continue to receive massive endorsements across the length and breadth of the country as scores of people on daily basis express reasons to retain the NPP.
With about eighty-seven days to the December polls, it is becoming clear that the NPP remains the obvious party that Ghanaians, especially, market women believe has the track record to sustain the economic gains chalked by the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government.
Expressing their solid resolve in the NPP government, women, especially traders in the various markets across the Asokwa constituency maintain that it is only the NPP government which has shown that it is for the very poor in society.
In a renewed spirit after the Regional party chairman, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, stormed markets in the constituency, market women, commercial drivers, hawkers among others, say they have higher conviction that Dr Bawumia will protect the flagship free SHS programme.
Madam Lydia, a vegetable seller at the Atonso market, could not hide her excitement with the government over the many pro-poor policies, which she noted has produced six SHS graduates in the last seven years.
To her, anything short of victory for the NPP would be an act of ingratitude on the part of Ghanaians.
She claimed not to hate the NDC, but what makes her have a soft spot for the NPP has been their policies which always have a direct bearing on every Ghanaian.
On her part, Auntie Mary, a cosmetic dealer, seems to find it extremely difficult to understand why, inspite of the abysmal performance of the NDC under Mahama, some Ghanaians, who, to her, have immensely benefitted from the policies of this government, wish for the return to the corridors of power.
The market women, are therefore, making a strong appeal to Ghanaians, to put their interests aside, and ensure a landslide electoral victory for Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and Patricia Appiagyei, as President and Member of Parliament, respectively.
