Date: Oct 01 , 2019, 2019 .BY: Benjamin Xornam Glover
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Mr Hopeson Yaovi Adorye, parliamentary candidate-elect for the Kpone Katamanso Constituency,
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate-elect
for the Kpone Katamanso Constituency, Mr Hopeson Yaovi Adorye, has
pledged to work hard to secure the seat for the NPP for the first time in the
history of the Fourth
Republic
The seat has for a long time been held by the NDC but the
MP, Mr Joseph Nii Laryea Afortey Agbo, aka Lion, has hanged his parliamentary
boots and handed the mantle to a business consultant and Managing Director of
the JOBIZ Business Consult, Joseph Akuerteh Tettey.
However, the NPP has said the party is confident of wining
the parliamentary seat.
Out of the 652 votes cast last Saturday, September 28, 2019,
Mr Adorye polled 321 votes to defeat his closest contender, Mr William Asante,
brother of the convener of the pressure group, Let my vote Count Alliance
(LMVCA), Mr David Asante, who polled 203 votes.
Other contestants were Prince Dadzie who secured 56 votes,
while Mr Mark Fuachie Sobreh, a banker, polled 22 votes, with Mr David Quaye
Annang, a former MCE for Tema, getting 46 votes.
Four ballots were rejected, while 39 delegates were absent.
Humbled
Mr Adorye, in an interview, said he was excited and humbled
by the support shown, stressing that delegates bought into his message of how
he and the NPP were going to help develop the constituency when given the
mandate come December 2020.
He promised to work hard and with the support of the other
contenders and constituency executive members, campaign vigorously to unseat
the NDC.
"In previous elections, disunity among constituency
executive members worked against the party's quest to annex the seat but with
the prevailing unity and the resolve of all including his contenders to wrest
the seat, the NPP is more poised to cause a major upset by defeating the NDC
which has held onto the seat," he said.
Peaceful elections
Voting started at 9 a.m. and things got heated up few hours
into the polls when a text message purported to have been created by one of the
aspirants went viral among the delegates that Mr William Asante had stepped
down from the race.
A furious Mr Asante had to quickly step in to dismiss the
said text message as it had generated anxiety among voters.
A combined team of police and military personnel were on
hand to provide security during the polls.
Ashaiman
Meanwhile from Ashaiman, Grace Osei & Mercy Akpene
Amevor report that the 2016 parliamentary candidate for the New Patriotic Party
(NPP), Alhaji Yakubu Labaran, was again re-elected to represent the party in
the Ashaiman Constituency for the 2020 general election.
He obtained 449 votes of the 1179 votes cast, beating Mr
Eric Gregory Kwasi Kwatia and Alexander Narh-Gbeeku who secured 378 and 203
votes respectively.
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