I can lead NPP to victory

By William Yaw Owusu

Tuesday December 18, 2007
KWABENA AGYEI AGYAPONG, a Presidential aspirant of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) says the time has come for the party to usher in a new generation of leadership that will guarantee the sustenance of the political tradition of the party.

“If we as a nation are to catch up with the developed world then we will need a new kind of leadership that is intensely action-oriented, passionately mission-minded, very demanding of results and has no time for bureaucratic inertia.

In a press briefing to throw more light on his candidature for the December 22, Congress of the NPP, Mr. Agyeapong who is a former Press Secretary to President Kufuor said “I am ready to provide that kind of leadership.”

He said to drive our developmental agenda forward we need to put the nation on a level that will change attitudes of the people and restore the culture of hard work as well as put people into productive work.”

“I will lead by example and inject a renewed sense of urgency, vitality, passion and patriotion into our body politic,” because we as a nation will have to graduate from trade to industry.”

Mr. Agyapong who is campaigning on the theme: “securing our common future” said the President Kufuor administration has already laid a solid foundation for the future development of the country and the party needed to elect hardworking and marketable candidate to take over from him.

“If elect the flagbearer I will work with dedication and selflessness to ensure total victory for the NPP in 2008 because I believe strongly that the time has come for us to put an end seminars, workshops, for a and more into the implementation mode of what President Kufuor will leave behind.

“I will offer the party and the country a leadership of competence, compassion, commitment and courage. I will provide a leadership that understands and listens to the people.”

Mr. Agyapong urged the delegates to choose a flagbearer who is marketable and can withstand the opposition at any time, saying “I have all it takes to led the NPP to victory.