Ahead of next month’s by-election at Kumawu in the Ashanti region, the ruling New Patriotic Party, NPP has held its primaries which has chosen one Ernest Yaw Anim from Bodomase as its Candidate.
Mr. Anim polled 195 out of the 419 votes cast to emerge as the winner but was given a good run for his money by the only woman contender, Madam Ama Serwaa, who lost the internal election with 181 of the valid votes, 18 less than what the eventual winner garnered.
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 Yaw Baah, rescinded their ambitions for various reasons leaving the five who eventually slugged it out at Besore, venue of the polls.
At the end of the contest, a native of Bodomase, Mr. Ernest Yaw Anim, garnered 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.
A director at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Aboagye DaCosta, managed to get only 27 of the votes and placed 3rd while the remaining two aspirants, Kwame Appiah Kubi got 10, with Osei Bempah going home with just five votes with one of the ballots cast been 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.
Source:gbcghanaonline.com
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