Four members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) are set to battle it out in the Odododiodoo constituency for the party’s parliamentary primary.
The interest of the four aspirants follows the party’s decision to open nominations for the NPP parliamentary primaries in ‘orphan’ constituencies across the country,
The candidates, who have declared their intentions, are candidate for the 2016 election, Nii Lantey Bannerman, Executive Secretary of the Premix Fuel Committee, Lawyer Reginald Nii Bi Aryee Bontey, businessman, Michael Nii Yarboi Annan and United States based Rev Atwere.
Former Secretary of the Odododiodoo Constituency, Samuel Ofosu, who is now a spokesperson for one of the aspirants in an interview on Onua FM said his candidate is only bowing to pressures from the constituency.
“He (Michael Nii Yarboi) has not said so but the pressure from the youth, the people and chiefs, he has no option than to contest the seat because he has helped the youth and party in diverse ways,” he said.
Mr Ofosu added that “the pressure is not only coming from Odododiodoo alone but from other constituencies to contest in that constituency and I will urge the delegates to vote for him to become the candidate for the 2020 elections and wrestle the seat from the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
“We need a candidate the opponent will give respect to. We need a formidable candidate because the NDC approached him to contest for them and he declined,” he claimed.
The spokesperson said “we are dealing not only with the NPP alone…but the whole constituency so we need someone all the political parties will appreciate and vote for.”
The picking of nominations for NPP’s parliamentary primaries in ‘orphan’ constituencies across the country is opened till August 3, 2019 and the elections held September 28, 2019.
According to the General Secretary of the party, John Boadu, an aspiring parliamentary candidate would pick nomination forms at a non-refundable cost of GH₵2,000.00 in Bankers Draft and filed at a non-refundable cost of GH¢20,000.00.
Source: Adomonline.com
