Mahama on a 10-day Northern Tour

By William Yaw Owusu

Saturday May 31,2008
Prof. Atta Mills' running mate for Elections '08, Hon John Dramani Mahama, has commenced a 10-day campaign tour of the 3 Northern Regions.

His campaign will take him through the Upper East, Upper West and Northern Regions, where he is expected to introduce himself tothe electorate and gather support forthe NDC in the upcoming elections.

He will also pay courtersy calls onthe various traditional leaders

Before he left he paid courtersy calls on all the media institutions and promised the NDC's preparedness to ensure a peaceful, credible and free and fair polls in December.

Mr. Mahama who is the MP for Bole Bamboi in the Northern Region waded into the the current debate over the intended award to be bestowed on Prof. Mills, and appealled to the public to stop reading politics into the decision taken by President Kufuor to honour the NDC flag-bearer.

He said neither the NDC nor Prof. Mills requested for the award to warrant the unecessary criticisms that has charactorised the genuine intentions of the President.

'I find the comments of some of the NPP officials as unfortunate and I think that we need to rise above partisan politics.'

'The fact of the matter is that the award to be conferred on Prof. Mills by President Kufuor would not determine who wins the 2008 elections.'

The NDC running mate said 'whether Prof. Mills receives the award or not, it would not influence or affect the NDC's resounding victory in the December election.'

'Irrespective of the positions or opinions being expressed by some members of the NPP, if the award is given to Prof. Mills, he would take it as one of the privileges.'