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He added: “I would strongly [ask] that you work closely with my Regional Youth Organiser and my Regional Women Organiser since groups of this nature fall under their mandates, especially the Regional Women Organiser.”

Smart Ladies reveal blueprint
The NPP’s Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo polled 118, 454 votes (representing 35.25%) as against 188, 405 votes (representing 56.06%) obtained by the NDC’s Professor John Evans Atta Mills in the Upper East Region at the 2008 general elections.

That same year saw the NDC’s parliamentary seats drop from 9 to 8 whilst the NPP increased its seats from 2 to 4. The 2008 presidential run-off passed with NPP getting 117,477 (34.40%) votes and the NDC attracting 223,994 (65.60%) votes.

In 2012, the NPP’s Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo garnered 120, 814 (29.9%) votes in the region with the NDC’s John Dramani Mahama gaining 274,019 (66.44%) votes. The NDC’s seats increased to 12 whilst the NPP’s 4 seats dropped to 2.

Moments after the inauguration Saturday, the Smart Ladies told the press of their determination to work hard to turn the result table around in 2016.

“Our aim is to see Nana Addo as President in Ghana come December 7 and victory [for] all the PCs (parliamentary candidates). We will achieve our goals [by] going to market squares, meeting our colleague women, youth groups, going to the lorry parks, going door to door, organising programmes, organising workshops.

“So many things are happening in Ghana. School feeding is cut off. Teachers’ allowances (scrapped). Our light bills, our water bills [are] too much. Change is coming. I advise all my colleague women to take part in active politics notwithstanding all the insults they rain on us, whether [they say] you are a harlot, no matter what they say,” chairperson of the group, Cynthia Wepia Addah said.