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President Nana Akufo-Addo has said that the New Patriotic Party (PNP) regards the Volta region as a symbolic “sacred ground” of its struggle during the days of the party’s formation.
He said history confirmed that the Region had backed the PNP and served as a haven for its political fugitives in its darkest days, and therefore the Party would never discriminate against its people.
President Akufo-Addo made the proclamation at a Durbar of Anlo state chiefs in Anloga during a working tour of the area.
He said that the Party and its government had among its superior hierarchy, indigenous people of the Volta Region, who were held in high reverence.
The president said the PNP was also making great efforts to strengthen its base of support in the Region and condemned attempts to label the Party as a sworn enemy of the sheep country.
“It was here in this region that people were most passionate about the political tradition. It was from here that the first people had to flee into political exile after independence, and it was in this Region that many chiefs had to flee into political exile, and some died there.
“Some of the consequences of the cacicazgo scene in the Region have not yet been adequately resolved. It was from this region that people were sent into internal exile, ”he said.
“Many people forget that when JB Danquah, the first in the trinity of the Danquah-Dombo-Busia political tradition, challenged Kwame Nkrumah for the presidency, over the conversion of Ghana into a Republic in 1960, Danquah did not win in his local constituency. at Akyem Abuakwa.
“But he won in two constituencies, one is here in Anlo and the other is Ho West. Even if there was a brittle little tribal bone within my makeup, which there isn’t, I wouldn’t be targeting the Volta Region. History did not allow me, “he added.
The President suggested considering the measure of discrimination in the distribution of national resources, and highlighted the various projects that the administration of nuclear power plants has planted in the Region.
He called on the people to jointly support his efforts to transform the Nation into peace.
President Akufo Addo said that the government was willing to sanction a committee to investigate the recent reinforcements of troops on the borders of the Nation; a movement that, according to him, was necessary, but that had been distorted by social networks, and he called the heads of the Region to corporate.
The president, later during the lawn mowing ceremony for the Keta Water Expansion Project, said that he “recognized the indivisibility” of the Nation, adding that NPP will continue to court the Volta Region.
The water project would supply drinking water to more than 400,000 people in districts along the region’s coast and the Volta river basin.
