<<Print>>The New Patriotic Party (NPP) appears to be making serious incursions with their campaign in the rural areas.
With barely four months to go to this year’s general elections, some members of the party have left the comfort of Accra to campaign in mostly villages.
Leading the charge is ‘The Loyal Ladies’ group of the NPP which have intensified their efforts to help unseat the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration.
The volunteer group which is under the party’s youth wing is made of up young health workers, lawyers, graduates, teachers and a host of other professionals, have since vowed to unseat the Mahama-administration with the belief that does not have the interest of Ghanaians at heart.
They are currently spread in villages across all 10 regions of Ghana campaigning for change.
“We can't sit in the comfort of Accra and think power is going to come on a silver platter; that is why we have decided to leave our comfort zones to the villages to preach the message of change to the people”, a leader of one of The Loyal Ladies groups told adomonline.
For days, the ladies, clothed in NPP t-shirts and other paraphernalia, were spotted in some typical villages in Central, Eastern and Western regions.
Farms, cottages, drinking spots, market centres, chop bars, draught joints, prayer camps, amongst other local places, were all stormed by the ladies.
Asked what motivated them to leave their homes to sleep in trenches to campaign for the NPP and Nana Akufo-Addo, another member of the group said "it has become too hard to live in this country, even qualified nurses are unemployed, fuel prices increase everyday, too much borrowing by government but unmatched developments, power outages, high duty costs and unemployment. Life has become too difficult as young ladies. The NDC must go”.
She said they would continue their campaign activities in the villages until they see the back of incumbent President John Dramani Mahama and his NDC administration. Sometime in July this year, the Loyal Ladies group undertook a massive fundraising exercise by washing cars at a bay in Madina to support the NPPs National Youth Wing.