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Published on: 12/11/2008
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Mr Kwamina Duncan, regional secretary of the NPP, said the result showed that between Prof John Atta Mills and Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Ghanaians had approved the NPP presidential candidate "even though it is not complete."
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On the party's heavy losses along the coastal belt of the country, Mr Duncan said there must have been other "extraneous factors" that led to its defeat such as the inability of the government to tackle the fishermen's concerns about pair trawling and distribution of pre-mix fuel.He said these matters could not have been tackled at the party level and that it was for the government to have taken these concerns seriously.
"The party's defeat in these areas must have been the fishermen's way of registering their protest."
On the general conduct of the election, Mr Duncan commended people in the region for voting peacefully, the NDC for winning in 11 of the 19 constituencies and the regional election security taskforce and the media, for discharging their duties efficiently.