UE PNC REVIEWS ITS PERFORMANCE IN 2008 GENERAL ELECTION (PAGE 14, JUNE 8, 2010)

The Peoples National Convention (PNC) in the Upper East Region has identified the lack of resources, the inability of the party to launch its national campaign, as well as the lack of coordination in the national campaign team of the party as some of the factors that affected the performance of the PNC throughout the country in the last general election.
These observations were made at a Regional Executive Committee meeting held in Bolgatanga to review the party’s performance in the 2008 general election brainstorm the challenges of the party in the region and to strategise for the 2012 presidential and parliamentary elections.
According to the Regional Secretary of the PNC, Mr Henry Fatchu, all the 13 constituency chairmen, their secretaries and the 2008 parliamentary candidates were in attendance at the regional party offices for the crucial meeting held last Saturday.
Mr Fatchu said after their deliberations, it was proposed that the research team of the party should be strengthened to come out with modern methods of campaigning for 2012.
He said the regional executives endorsed the decision of the National Executive Committee for early congress scheduled for November 30, 2010, at Sunyani as a step towards the re-organisation of the party.
Touching on the pending national exercise to clean the voters register, Mr Fatchu said the meeting urged Ghanaians who were unable to register in the last voters registration exercise and those who had attained the age of 18 to take advantage of the up-coming exercise to register as that was the only way they could exercise their franchise in 2012.
On the economy, Mr Fatchu said the party in the region appreciates government effort to achieve a single-digit inflation as it was necessary to achieve a stable macro-economic growth which could affect the real value of money.
The PNC, however, reminded government that the trade-off between inflation and unemployment as a result of reduced inflation will lead to high unemployment in the economy and its attendant social repercussions.