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Lawyer Stephen Asukpa Odame
January 12, 2024
The Suhum Constituency Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic (NPP) Party Stephen Asukpa Odame said all is set for the party’s parliamentary primaries on Saturday, January 27, 2024; a two-horse race between the incumbent Member of Parliament Kwadjo Asante and Frank Asiedu Bekoe.
According to him the two have been cleared and they are going about their campaign as eight hundred and twenty-four delegates are expected to cast their votes in the parliamentary primaries.
The constituency secretary explained during a visit by Ghanamps.com that so far there is a clean campaign going on between the two aspirants who have adopted a one on one and social media platforms to reach out to the delegates since this is an internal contest, and it is expected that they will have a decorum campaign.
And so far there has not been any major incident and they are not expected to deviate from the standards and they expect them to uphold the standards.
On the issue of the loser going independent, he noted that whiles the two aspirants were filling the form, it was part of the undertaking that whoever is not successful in his bid will not go independent.
Furthermore, the constituency secretary explained that the NPP in Suhum is very strong on the ground and in the unlikely event that any losing candidate goes independent that will really not affect the fortunes of the party in Suhum.
As to whether the constituency should not be grooming MPs to gain experience rather than have first term MPs being contested keenly, he noted that we are in a democratic state and the party’s constitution gives that opportunity that every four years an opportunity should be given for other members of the party to contest.
He was however quick to admit that there is the need to build the capacity of an MP that means serving for quite some time to become an experience MP, “but we have chosen the path of democracy.”
Again, we have history of an MP in Suhum serving one term, Ransford Agyapong who was unseated by Fredrick Opare Ansah who served as an MP for sixteen years, he added.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com