PNC TO MAKE AGRIC CENTREPIECE OF AGENDA (PAGE 14)

THE flag bearer of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Dr Edward Mahama, has said a PNC government will make agriculture the centrepiece of its development agenda in the northern part of Ghana.
This he said would create more job opportunities for the teeming unemployed youth in the area.
He has therefore called on the electorate to rally behind the PNC and vote massively for it during the December polls.
Dr Mahama said it was time for the people to realise that a vote for the PNC would also end the political tension in the country between the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) that had over the years engulfed the country’s body politic.
The flag bearer said this during an interaction with party supporters at Yilonayili, a suburb of Tamale as part of his four-day campaign tour of the Northern Region.
The National Chairman of the PNC, Alhaji Ahmed Ramadan, and the National Women’s Organiser, Hajia Hajara Ali, accompanied him on the tour.
Dr Mahama and his campaign team visited Kpendua in the Tolon-Kumbungu District, and Walewale in the West Mamprusi District where he interacted with the teeming supporters of the party.
He also visited Nalerigu in the East Mamprusi District, at the invitation of the management of the Baptist Medical Centre (BMC), a missionary hospital, during its 50th anniversary celebration.
Dr Mahama was the first Ghanaian doctor who worked at the BMC in 1974.
He served the hospital for three years before going for further training in the United States of America.
The presidential hopeful mentioned subsidising farm inputs as one of the strategies to make agriculture lucrative and attractive for the youth to venture into.
He indicated that it was time for the people of the northern sector to rally behind his party to ensure that the north produced a president instead of playing second fiddle to that important position.
Dr Mahama said he was touched by the plight of the rural poor, and stressed that it was unacceptable and constituted a violation of their rights.
Such people, he said, needed to be given equal opportunities with the rich and basic social amenities to enable them to live comfortably.