NPP Holds Ejisu Parliamentary Primary Today – All You Need To Know

The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) will today, Saturday, April 13, 2024, conduct the parliamentary primary in the Ejisu Constituency to select a Parliamentary Candidate.

The primary follows the death of the late NPP MP John Kumah which occurred on March 7, 2024.

The 45-year-old MP died after a short illness, leaving behind a wife and six children.

The nine individuals on Thursday, April 4 picked up forms to contest the NPP parliamentary primary for the Ejisu constituency since the party opened nominations on Tuesday, April 2, 2024.

All Nine aspirants seeking to contest in the party’s parliamentary primary in the Ejisu Constituency were cleared by the vetting committee on April 6.

 

Find below the balloting positions

1. Lawyer Kwabena Boateng – a legal practitioner

2. Dr Evans Duah – a lecturer and at Akenten Appiah Minkah University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development.

3. Klinsman Karikari Mensah – Ejisu Constituency Second Vice-Chairman, Klinsman Karikari Mensah.

4. Helena Mensah – Presiding Member of Ejisu Municipal Assembly

5. Jacqueline Abena Pokua Amoah-Boaitey also known as ‘Ejisu Broni’

6. Portia Baffoe Abronye – the wife of the New Patriotic Party Regional Chairman for Bono Region, Kwame Baffoe alias Abronye DC.

7. Lawyer Kwesi Nyantakyi – Former GFA boss and legal practitioner

8. Aaron Prince Duah

9. Yaa Akyawmaa Aboagye

 

High interest

Ejisu is one of the safest seats of the NPP in the region and the constituents have always voted for the party. It, therefore, goes without saying that anyone who emerges as the winner of the primary is an automatic MP. This fact might have accounted for the high interest in the seat by the party members.

In the last parliamentary elections, the NPP candidate secured a whopping 68,326 votes representing 82.8 percent of the total votes as against 14,164 by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate, representing 17.2 percent of the votes cast.

 

EC
Meanwhile, the Electoral Commission (EC) has set April 30, 2024, for the by-election.

Article 112(6) of the 1992 Constitution states that a by-election should not be held three months before a general election.

 

By-Election

No other political party has yet expressed interest in the by-election.

The National Democratic Congress has stated that it is still considering whether to participate in the by-election.

The former MP for the area and Deputy Minister for Roads and Highways, Kwabena Owusu Aduomi, a known supporter of Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen’s Movement for Change, has also declared his intention to contest as an independent candidate.

 

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