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Voters within the Assin North Constituency within the Central Area immediately goes to the polls to solid their votes in a parliamentary by-election to elect a member of parliament for the realm.
Following the declaration of the seat as vacant on account of a Supreme Courtroom resolution for the title of James Gyakye Quayson to be expunged from parliament, the realm obtained intense political actions within the run-up to immediately’s elections.
A complete of 41,168 registered voters are anticipated to vote in 99 polling stations throughout the constituency.
Three candidates are contesting immediately’s by-elections with Charles Opoku of the New Patriotic Get together (NPP) and Nationwide Democratic Congress (NDC)’s James Gyakye Quayson because the entrance runners in what is predicted to be a keenly contested election. The third candidate, Bernice Enyonam Sefenu representing the Liberal Get together of Ghana (LPG), is considered by political watchers as “including as much as the numbers.”
Since 2012, the NDC had gained two out three parliamentary elections (2012 and 2020) with the opposite one slot going to the NPP (2016) and pundits count on the seat to swing in direction of the NPP.
Earlier than the creation of Assin North and Assin Central constituencies from the then Assin Constituency in 2012, the constituency was seen because the stronghold of the New Patriotic Get together (NPP) with Kennedy Agyepong profitable the seat three phrases (2000, 2004, and 2008).
Nevertheless, the Nationwide Democratic Congress (NDC) represented by Samuel Ambre, gained the newly created Assin North Parliamentary seat within the 2012 by acquiring 14,338 votes representing 51.64 per cent to beat Ebenezer Appiah-Kubi of the NPP who garnered 12,281 votes, representing 44.24 per cent.
Within the 2016 parliamentary elections, Abena Durowaa Mensah who contested on the ticket of the NPP annexed the seat by securing 15,553 votes representing 56.77 per cent towards Samuel Ambre of the NDC who secured 10,751 votes, representing 39.24 per cent.
The NPP candidate, Abena Durowaa Mensah who was the incumbent MP garnered 14,193 votes representing 44.79 per cent at hand over the seat to the NDC’s James Gyakye Quayson who obtained 17,498 votes, representing 55.21 per cent.
Strategically, the NPP chosen Charles Opoku, an indigene of Assin Breku, the constituency capital to neutralise the political benefit of James Gyakye Quayson, additionally an indigene of the city.
Because of the seriousness each the NPP and NDC connected to the elections, high-ranking officers of the 2 political events had been in Assin North to marketing campaign for his or her respective candidates within the run as much as the ballot.
At this time’s ballot is seen as a mid-term election to check the recognition of the ruling NPP administration and the primary opposition NDC which might set the tone for a psychological thoughts sport within the run-up to the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections.
Charles Opoku, the NPP’s parliamentary candidate is tipped to win immediately’s by-election with a slim margin.
The NPP likewise, its NDC counterpart, despatched members of various ethic identities to each neighborhood together with farms and hamlets to marketing campaign for his or her respective candidate.
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, Nationwide Chairman, Stephen Ntim, Basic Secretary, Justin Kodua Frimpong and different nationwide officers of the celebration, members of parliament, regional and constituency executives and different officers amongst others campaigned rigorously on the necessity for the electorates to vote for Charles Opoku.
Led by the Former President, John Dramani Mahama, Chairman of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketsia, Basic Secretary of NDC, Fiifi Kwettey and different main members of the celebration including members of parliament the NDC gave indication of the celebration profitable the elections.
The NDC moreover taking part in the sympathy card, centered on marshalling its supporters throughout the settler communities to vote massively for the celebration’s candidate in immediately’s by-elections.
Basic Secretary of the NDC, Fiifi Fiavi Kwettey, throughout a radio rally on Wealthy FM, a neighborhood radio station at Assin Fosu pleaded with the host to permit him converse Ewe to achieve out to folks from the Volta Area domiciled within the numerous communities within the Assin North Constituency.
FROM DAVID O.
YARBOI-TETTEH, ASSIN BEREKU
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