NPP ELECTS BODOMASE NATIVE IN A BID TO RETAIN VACANT KUMAWU PARLIAMENTARY SEAT
Rulling New Patriotic Party, NPP has held its primaries
which has chosen one Ernest Yaw Anim from Bodomase as its Candidate for next
month's By-election at Kumawu in the Ashanti region.
Mr. Anim polled 195 out of the 419 votes cast to emerge as
the winner but was keenly contested by the only female aspirant, Madam Ama
Serwaa, who lost the contest with 181 of the valid votes, 18 less than what the
eventual winner had. Mr. Anim is a 38-year old
Accountant.
A total of 419 delegates from the 25 Electoral Areas within
the Constituency took part in the primaries.
Earlier out of the initial eight aspirants who formally
filed their Nomination documents, three, including a former MP for the
Constituency, Mr. Yaw Baah, rescinded
their ambitions for various reasons leaving the five who eventually slugged it
out at Besore where the polls took place today, Sunday April 23, 2023.
At the end of the contest, Mr. Ernest Yaw Anim from
Bodomase, got 195 of the valid votes out of the 419 total votes to beat his
four contenders.
His closest challenger was the only woman hopeful, Madam Ama
Serwaa, who lost with 181 votes, 18 less than what Mr Anim polled.
Disappointly, Dr. Aboagye DaCosta, a director at the
Ministry of Health, garnered only 27 of the votes to place 3rd with the
remaining two aspirants, Mr. Kwame
Appiah Kubi got 10, while Osei Bempah went home with just five votes as one of
the ballots cast was rejected.
The primaries was heavily patronized by party functionaries
from the Polling Station, Constituency, Regional to national levels including
the General Secretary, Mr. Justin Kodua Frimpong, National Organizer, Nana
Boakye Yiadom and the Ashanti Regional Chairman, Mr. Bernard Antwi Boasiako.
It was supervised by a team from the Electoral
Commission led by its Director for Electoral Services, Dr. Serebuor Quarcoo,
under heavy police protection.
Winner of the primaries, Ernest Anim, while showing
appreciation to all who played a role in the success of the polls and his win,
pledged to unite members of the NPP to guarantee the party a retention of the
Kumawu Parliamentary seat after the upcoming By-election.
The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the NPP, Bernard Antwi
Boasiako, described the choice of Mr. Anim as the party's
Candidate as strategic since Mr. Anim comes from the same community as
the Independent MP hopeful.
Mr. Antwi Boasiako, affectionately referred to as Chairman
Wontumi, described Mr. Kodua, the Independent aspirant, as an outcast of the
NPP because the man has broken ranks with the party in the constituency.
He alleged that, based on the background colour of Mr.
Kodua's campaign posters, he is being supported by Ghana's biggest opposition
party, the National Democratic Congress, NDC to take the seat away from the NPP
but assured members of the NPP that, with results of the primaries now clear,
the party will retain the Kumawu seat after the By-Election.
The General Secretary of the NPP, Justin Kodua Frimpong,
however singled out the only woman aspirant for exhibiting faith in the party
even in defeat.
The General Secretary also called for a united front within
the NPP in the Constituency as it kick-starts its main campaign to win the
upcoming polls.
Meanwhile, the NDC already has its Candidates who was chosen
unopposed after close of the party's Nomination period in February, 2023.
Mr. Kwame Kodua, the Independent Candidate in the 2020
Parliamentary elections and nearly caused an upset, has also begun his campaign
to contest in the By-Election.
The Electoral Commission has scheduled the Kumawu By-
election for the 23rd of next month for the constituents to select a
replacement for their serving Member of Parliament, Mr. Philip Basoah, who
passed away last month after a short illness.
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