Dominic Ayine gets nod to contest Bolga East seat on the ticket of NDC

Story: Benjamin Xornam Glover, Zuarungu Dr. Dominic M. Ayine, a lawyer has been elected as the parliamentary candidate for the yet to be legalised Bolgatanga East Constituency to contest the general elections on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress, (NDC). Dr. Ayine, a Managing Partner of the law office offices of Ayine and Felli polled 85 votes out of the 137 votes cast to beat his contender, Mr. Timothy Azaa Ayamga who secured 52 votes. Bolgatanga East Constituency is part one of the additional 45 constituencies the Electoral Commission (EC) intends to create across the country. The Constitutional Instrument for the creation of additional constituencies has been laid in Parliament pending maturation. In a post victory interview with the Daily Graphic, Dr. Ayine described the election process as very fair and well organised. He commended the executives of the party for the decent manner they organised the election. On his vision for the constituency, he said since it is a new constituency, he and his executive are committed to adopting a strategy of marketing the party and his candidature very well in order to deliver the seat for the NDC. He said as a first step, he will help in the construction of a constituency office and also strengthen the party structures in the area. “We will have to showcase what we can do as a party and as a government in order to bring about development for our people”, he said. Touching on developments for the area, he said the national government will usually draw its development plan and as MP, his will be to buy into that and see extent to which he can exploit the framework of the national development for the development of the people in the constituency. The Upper East Regional Minister, Mr. Mark Woyongo said the victory of the candidate is the beginning of a much greater work towards securing not only the parliamentary but presidential victory for the party. He tasked members of the party in the area to eschew procrastination but rather bury their differences and work together since the party do not have the luxury of time. He said victory for the NDC in the December Polls will be a fitting memorial to the Late President John Evans Atta Mills under whose tenure; the constituency was formulated and created. The only thing you can do in appreciation is to vote massively for the NDC. I am sure that will be the beginning of a new district for the Bolgatanga East. “If we all pull in the same direction, I have no doubt that victory will be ours, especially now that we have our brother as the President. The last time that we had a northern President was 33 years ago. It has been a very long time. If we miss this opportunity it may take us another forty years so my appeal, without sounding ethnic is that let us rally behind the NDC so that some December 7 we will return our brother as president of the republic” Mr. Bede Ziden, a co-opted member of the National Executive Committee of the NDC dismissed assertions that the NDC ahs erred in choosing parliamentary candidate even before the passage of the C.I stressing that technically and legally, the party was on course to elect its candidate in preparation for the formal creation of the constituency. -end- August 18,2012