Spare parts dealers boost Nana Addo’s campaign with
Ghc200, 000
The crowd at the Abossey Okai Spare
Parts Market.
The Presidential Candidate of the
opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, had his campaign drive
for the 2016 November polls boosted with a donation of Ghc200,000 from some
spare parts dealers at the Abossey Okai Spare Parts Market at Kaneshie in
Accra.
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who is
touring parts of Accra in a bid to woo the electorate to return the NPP to
power in this year’s election, took his visit to the business hub where the
crowd gave him a rousing welcome.
According to Citi FM’s Sammi
Wiafe who has been covering the tour, a group calling itself ‘Volunteers
for Nana Addo’, made up of Abossey Okine Spare Parts Dealers, donated
GH¢200,000 towards the NPP flagbearer’s campaign.
Some spare parts dealers at the
Abossey Okine in the Ablekuma Central Constituency
He reported that Nana Akufo-Addo
held a mini rally at the Abossey Okine Spare Parts market, where he
addressed hundreds of NPP supporters and entreated them to vote massively for
the party in the November 7 polls.
NPP’s ‘Donate for Change’ campaign
In a bid to generate enough
resources for the upcoming polls, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) launched the ‘Donate for change’ campaign aimed
at soliciting for funds.
According to the party, they have
resorted to this strategy of raising funds because all their funds for the
election cannot come from one source so they saw it fit to widen their funding
network with more innovation.
Kayayei (Head porters) donate to NPP
One of the more notable donors to
Nana Addo’s campaign was a group of head porters, locally referred to as
‘Kayayei’, in the Kumasi Metropolis, who donated an amount of Ghc5,000 to
the NPP, at a Fund Raising event held at the Babayara Sports Stadium.
The head porters mostly from
Northern Ghana, presented the cash as an association to support the party’s
campaign ahead of the November polls.
According to the association, they
donated the money to ensure Nana Addo does not go around begging for money to
become President.
