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Boniface as NPP Presidential running mate - Group
Tamale, May 2, Ghanadot/GNA - A group calling itself
"Friends of the NPP" in the Tamale Metropolis, has appealed
to Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo, NPP Presidential candidate,
to consider nominating Alhaji Saddique Abubakar Boniface as
running-mate to win the December general election.
The group said Alhaji Boniface had the charisma, the enigma
and was down to earth; attributes, which could help the NPP
win more floating voters and even from the NDC particularly,
from the Northern Region where divisions were sharp for the
crucial December polls.
The appeal was contained in a statement issued in Tamale on
Friday and signed by the group’s President, Mr. Seidu Bakari.
The group indicated that if Alhaji Boniface was chosen to
partner the flagbearer, then there would be a fierce
competition between Nana Akufo-Addo and Professor John Evans
Atta Mills for the southern votes while Alhaji Boniface
could wrest majority of the northern votes from Mr. John
Mahama, the NDC's Vice-Presidential nominee.
The statement said Alhaji Boniface won the hearts of every
one in the Northern Region when he was the Northern Regional
Minister and the role he played for the successful burial of
the late Ya-Na Yakubu Andani II and the installation of his
regent.
It said: "If the NDC has found in Mr. John Dramani Mahama
someone who commands attraction and has good human
relations, in Boniface the NPP too has a very humble
personality who combines the qualities in Mr. John Mahama
and acceptability across the political divide even in the
Northern Region where divisions are very sharp."
"Fortunately too, Alhaji Boniface has a Muslim background
unblemished public office performance and an aura that is
very difficult to resist," it said.
The statement noted that Alhaji Boniface was a young man
that destiny had brought unto the country's political scene
adding that even at his age, he had held three Ministerial
portfolios successfully and could do better as a
running-mate.
According to the statement, when as the Minister of Water
Resources, Works and Housing Alhaji Boniface embarked on a
recent tour of the Northern Region to assess the water
situation he was mobbed by people across the political
divide.
"All the places Alhaji Boniface visited from Gushiegu to
Karaga, Yendi to Bimbilla, Buipe to Damongo and Walewale to
Bunkpurugu/Yunyoo the people hailed and adored him", it
said.
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