SENARI CALLS FOR CLEAN CAMPAIN

Story & Picture: Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu, Takoradi
The acting Women’s Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Hajia Mariam Sinare, has called for healthy campaign to ensure that the party emerged the winner in the coming congress.
Hajia Sinare, who is competing for the National Women Organizer post said the interest of the party was important, therefore, delegates should not under any circumstance succumb financial or material influenced to vote against their clear choices.
Women, she said would be her prime focus to ensure that they were properly taking care-of if she wins and to also help the party mobilize to deliver as well as bring more women on board.
Hajia Sinare speaking to the Daily Graphic during her tour of the Western Region and to lend support to some members of the party who were also contesting other positions in the party.
“If you are influenced by money or a piece of gift to vote against your will, you will not be in the position to question the wrong doing of the person because he or she has bought you out of your right to speak against them,” she said.
“Our party upholds the intrinsic-worth of morality, accountability and transparency, therefore, there should be not room for material or financials influence in our campaign, but rather we should all ensure healthy crusade, she said.
She said the party came to power based on the submissive and human centered posture of its leader, Professor John Evans Atta Mills, “Prof campaign with clear message of a better Ghana and not financial or gift giving campaign, let us follow to the footsteps of Prof.”
Therefore “if we want to contest various positions in the party we have to make sure that people were made to choose freely base on their own conviction and what the delegates made of the message of various candidates.”
Hajia Senari, who was the first deputy women organizer during the 2008-campaign that brought the National Democratic Congress power, said she would not play down the strength of other contenders of the post, but rather focus on message that would ensure that delegates voted for her.
She observed that during the last election 2008, one of the things that won power for the party was the indomitable will of the women who had strong conviction that NDC would worth voting for.
“Therefore, if I get the nod, I would continue to work tirelessly to improve the fortunes of the party to ensure that we did not only maintain our strength but improve on it,” she said.
“I will be constantly committed to the needs of women and ensure that as we did for the party to win the trust of women during the 2008 elections continues,” she said.
Asked how her election to the position which she had deputized for all this years would improve the fortunes of the party, she said women play very important role organizing and mobilization.
“We have own an elections and we cannot wait for the next election to start campaigning the time is now, we have to work as a team to ensure that we peacefully and gracefully elect people to various positions devoid of influence of any form,” Hajia Sinare said
“By the grace of Allah I am very sure of winning the position of the National Women Organizer and to work for the party throughout the country, I will part of the Team-2012 for real,” she assured.
Picture: Hajia Mariam Sinare interacting with some executive members from various constituencies in the region.