Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, wife of the flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has advised women to talk to their husbands to remain calm and vote peacefully during the forthcoming elections.
“You women and your children stand to suffer should there be any upheaval in the elections,” she told market women when she ended a two-day familiarisation tour of some parts of the Volta Region.
She visited six market centres and interacted with the market women.
The market centres were Juapong in the North Tongu District, Kpassa and Nkwanta in the Nkwanta District, Dodo Amanfrom and Kadjebi in the Kadjebi District and Gemini in the South Dayi District.
Her said as market women and mothers they had a lot of challenges, including child maintenance and inadequate funds, for their businesses.
She, therefore, called on them to vote for the NPP to cater for thier needs.
“As women you should associate yourselves with the NPP and not be lured by empty promises of those who when voted have nothing to offer but to seek their own private interest,” she said.
She said her husband had promised to extend the capitation grant to the senior high school to remove some of the burden on them.
On roads infrastructure, Mrs Akufo-Addo said it was one of the priorities an Akufo-Addo government had outlined.
At Juapong, the market women said the market needed facilities such as kindergartens, toilet and a security fence.
Madam Agnes Aziator, Market Queen, speaking on behalf of the market women said the market was expanding so they needed more stalls.
Accompanying Mrs Akufo-Addo was the Volta Regional Minister, Mr Kofi Dzamesi.
He asked the market women to come out in their numbers on election day to vote for the NPP.
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