Dr. Samuel Okoe Amanquah, Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of the Kpone-Katamanso Municipality, in the Greater Accra Region, says the time had come for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to beat the political hegemony of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the constituency.
This, the MCE, who submitted his nomination forms to his party’s Constituency Secretary to contest in the 2023 parliamentary primaries, said it would need extra work and better-structured messages to all the electorate.
The Kpone-Katamanso Constituency has been a waterloo for the NDC for 32 years, with the major challenges of the area still lingering.
“Before the NPP would win power in 2000 and 2016, the roads in the constituency had been very bad, and I agree they are still bad. But, when we (NPP) are in power, our opponents talk as if they fixed all our roads, but were later destroyed when the NPP assumed power.
“They are always loud with this propaganda, and we still vote for them to represent us in Parliament. If this major challenge is what the NDC capitalises on to beat us, which means there is something we, in the NPP in the constituency, are not doing right.
“My team and I have identified that weakness in our party in the constituency, and I can promise you (delegates) that with me as your next parliamentary candidate, we will break the NDC’s dominance in 2024 when we go to the polls,” Dr. Amanquah told his supporters and media at the forecourt of the party’s office, after he had submitted and filed his nomination forms.
He said his tenure as the MCE for the Municipality had given him the privilege to meet business moguls and influential persons in the government, who are ready to help him develop the constituency.
“One more pressing challenge of my people is irregular water supply. But let me assure you all (the municipality) that I am still working hard as the MCE to get that resolved,” he added.
Dr. Samuel Okoe Amanquah is in the race with William Ofosu-Asante, and he promised to embark on a decent campaign to enable both parties to unite after the contest to defeat the NDC in the 2024 parliamentary elections.
The Constituency Secretary, Abdallah Abdulai, received the submission forms and said: “The Constituency Executives have shut the doors to anybody who wants to pick nominations forms, because we want to have only two contestants to enable the party to cement its authority at the base of the constituency. We need to win this seat for the first time after 32 years.”
