Day: December 2, 2023

Mr Dennis Percy Quaicoe, the National Chairman of Premix Fuel Committee has won the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) parliamentary primary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

He polled 429 votes to beat Mr Ebenezer Agyemang Kessie who got 274 votes of the 974 total ballots cast.

The third contestant, Mr Samuel Dentu, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Export Promotion Association (GEPA) got 268 votes with three rejected ballots.

About 20 delegates did not show up to vote reducing the total expected voters of 994 to 974.

Jubilations and excitement began immediately after counting and sorting started at the camp of the winner with the assurance of winning easily.

Mr Quaicoo after the declaration assured the party of victory in the 2024 general election for Mr Samuel Atta Mills, the current Member of Parliament to gladly hand over to the NPP.

He advised his contenders to come on board to win the seat together as they were one party and one people and urged the delegates not to underrate their o
pponents.

Source: Ghana News Agency

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) delegates in the Akan Constituency of the Oti Region have elected Alhaji Rashid Bawa, Ghana’s High Commissioner to Nigeria, as the Party’s Parliamentary Candidate for the 2024 polls.

He garnered 492 votes as against 103 by Tassah Abubakar Safiwu and 17 votes by Alhaji Tanko Issifu Yakubu, to win the primary.

The total valid votes cast was 613 with one rejected ballot.

Alhaji Bawa, also a former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 2005-2008, was the Akan NPP candidate in the 2020 election.

He pulled 13,300 votes, representing 40.78 per cent in that poll as against 19,317 votes, representing 59.22 per cent by Mr Yao Gomado, the National Democratic Congress candidate, who turned out victorious.

Saturday’s election was supervised by the Kadjebi District Office of the Electoral Commission, led by Mr Justice Odame-Frempong, while the Ghana Police Service, led by Superintendent Gyan-Mante Frimpong, ensured security.

Source: Ghana News Agency

There was jubilation in the Nkwanta South constituency on Saturday when the Municipal Director of Electoral Commission (EC) declared Madam Sherifa Sekyere Tinjani, as the parliamentary candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

The jubilant crowd including disabled persons, who were in full NPP party paraphernalia and tee-shirts, invaded the main roads of the constituency expressing their joy that change had finally come to the constituency at last, while others had powders poured on their heads and were engaged in motorcycle acrobatics.

Some of them were also seen wearing torn NPP tee shirts and chanting ‘We are moving forward’.

Some of them said Madam Tinjani as a peacemaker should try to unite the constituency and should not condone pressure nor indulge in vindictiveness.

They advised the parliamentary candidate to ensure that the polarization that had engulfed the constituency was addressed to move them forward in one direction for development.

Vehicles, motorbikes, tricycles, and the like, touted
their horns to greet the result.

Drinking sports were suddenly filled with jubilant supporters of NPP, singing and dancing in merrymaking.

Madam Tinjani polled 478 votes to unsettle Mr Joshua Makubu, the Oti Regional Minister in a declaration made by the Electoral Officials.

Source: Ghana News Agency

Mr Elvis Figo Awonekai, the Upper East Regional Secretary of the New Patriotic Party has been elected parliamentary candidate for the Bolgatanga Central Constituency.

He polled 618 votes of the 754 ballots to beat two other contestants, Mr Rawfield Abelio and Mr Rashid Agana Bawa who both secured 82 and 53, respectively.

Mr Awonekai, who is also the former Deputy Regional Secretary of the party would look to wrestle power from the current Member of Parliament and the National Democratic Congress parliamentary candidate, Isaac Adongo in the 2024 general election.

In his victory speech, Mr Awonekai expressed gratitude to the delegates for the confidence bestowed on him to lead the party in the Constituency and urged unity to take power from the NDC.

He said the current MP had done little to merit a return to Parliament in the next election and expressed the confidence of beating him in 2024.

He said the current MP was only interested in criticising the government particularly the President and his Vice wi
thout raising any issues that concerned the welfare of the people in the Constituency.

‘In 2024, we are taking the fight straight to him and I’m confident that I would beat him, if someone had contested him in their primaries, Isaac Adongo would have lost, so he will not have it easy in Bolgatanga Central,’ he said.

The Regional Secretary noted that he was always in touch with the constituents, and they had been complaining of lack of jobs especially for the youth and assured that he would work to reduce the employment rate in the area when elected to Parliament in 2024.

‘If you put your ears on the ground, you will realise that I have given several jobs from many departments to a lot of people through my lobbying powers and this is the time we have to take him out,’ he added.

Source: Ghana News Agency