By William Yaw Owusu
Monday December 10 2007
With 12 days to go for the congress of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) the campaigning has apparently entered its ‘finish-hard’ stage with a new strategy. The party’s presidential aspirants have flooded the main entrance to the venue, University of Ghana, Legon, with their giant billboards.
The messages of the aspirants on the beautiful billboards and posters bearing their photographs, all carry a very simple message for the delegates: Vote me as NPP’s flagbearer.
Yesterday, when the Times passed by the main entrance of the university where the congress will be held on December 22, almost all the 17 aspirants had erected their billboards and their posters on the sides of the road leading to Madina.The area has been decorated in a spectacular fashion.
While many of the billboards were already in place, others were being hurriedly erected. The Times learnt that every inch of plot in the area has been acquired by campaign teams of the aspirants. This has created a very spectacular scene and every motorist has had to slow down to look at the billboards thereby causing a traffic jam.
Passengers in tro tros are also not left out as they strive to pop their heads out of the windows to take in the scene. Electric poles and structures along the route also have their fair share of the decorations.
A security man at the entrance of the university said most of the billboards were erected immediately after the aspirants balloted last Wednesday, December 5, for their positions on the ballot sheet for the congress.
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