A resounding victory will bring peace - Veep

Tamale, Oct. 22, GNA - Vice President Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur on Monday gave another dimension to the peace of the 2012 elections by urging the electorate to vote massively for a clear winner to emerge at the first round.      He said doubts began to emerge when the results of the elections were close to call and when there was a thin margin of win.      He, therefore, asked the electorate to come out and vote massively with the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC)  as the preferred party because it was development oriented. Vice President Amissah-Arthur, who is also the running mate of President John Dramani Mahama, the presidential candidate of the NDC, made the appeal when he addressed supporters of the party after calling on traditional leaders in the Tamale Municipality.   The calls were part of a two-day visit and final leg of a five-day visit to the Upper West, Upper East and Northern regions. The Vice President had arrived on Sunday evening to a rousing welcome and addressed rallies in the metropolis in the Tamale Central, North and South constituencies.      He then paid a courtesy call on Dakpema Mohamed Alhassan, Chief of Tamale at his palace, and visited the Guikpe palace and  solicited their blessing for peaceful polls.      The traditional leaders praised the NDC Government for the concern for the Northern Region, the construction works at the Tamale Hospital, and the establishment of the Savanna Accelerated Development Authority (SADA), that was aimed at bringing social and economic interventions in the three northern regions of Ghana.      Vice President Amissah Arthur thanked the chiefs for their contributions to peace in the region.      “I can’t come here without thanking you for your contributions to the peace of Tamale. May that peace extend to other parts of Ghana and the whole of Ghana,” Vice President Amissah-Arthur said at the palace of the Guikpe Naa Abdulai Alhassan.      The Guikpe Naa expressed appreciation to the government and the NDC for what it had done for the Dagbon Area, and assured the Vice President of their support for Government’s development agenda.       He appealed to the Administrator of the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund), Mr Sam Garba, for the completion of a primary school started recently.      The Vice President used the occasion to introduce Alhaji A.B.A Fuseini,  a veteran journalist and Night Editor of the Daily Graphic  as the NDC parliamentary candidate for the newly created Zalerigu North Constituency.      Vice President Amissah-Arthur also paid homage to the Pogolana Palace, and later addressed the leadership of the Tamale Central Mosque.       He is yet to address students at the Tamale Campus of  the University for Development Studies. GNA ... Read Full Story