The Deputy Director of Communications at the Presidency, Jefferson Sackey, has set in motion a bid to win back the Ablekuma Central Parliamentary seat for the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
On Monday, July 17, 2023 he was presented with the nomination forms, picked up for him by the NPP Volunteer Group in the constituency.
The group spoke about the confidence it has in Jefferson, from when he was introduced to them by the three-time Member of Parliament, Victor Okuley Nortey, of the constituency, whose attestation motivated them to fully support Jefferson and to purchase the form for him.
While thanking the group for the gesture, Jefferson Sackey said “This is just the beginning. I’m sure from today on, we will see those who are serious.”
He assured them and the other constituents who had thronged his campaign office in Mataheko, Accra, that “the agenda was to make the Ablekuma constituency blue again.”
According to him, there was a need to “revitalise” the base of the party in the constituency, which has seven electoral areas including Abossey Okai, Adwenbu, Abossey Okai, Mabrouk and Gbortsui.
Jefferson was beaming with smiles throughout the brief meeting when the nomination forms were handed over to him, and he repeatedly professed his optimism for the constituents to work with him to reclaim the seat.
“I am sure victory will be ours at the end of everything,” he assured his teeming supporters.
WELFARE
Jefferson says he is coming with a “new energy” geared towards the welfare of the grassroots who own the party in the constituency.
He listed the numerous works he has undertaken in the constituency, including the recent interest-free loans to constituents and said, “So far, I can confidently say that 105 women have had access to the loan.”
He also mentioned the education support programme which saw the printing and distribution of about 3,000 exercise books to schoolchildren in the constituency.
SOME CONTRIBUTIONS
According to information made available to this paper, he rolled out ‘The Jefferson Care Women Empowerment Fund’, which sought to support women in petty trading and small-scale businesses with seed money of GH₡100,000.
He has donated 200 chairs to the party to be shared among the respective Electoral Areas and to be used by party members during meetings.
He is also donating GHâ‚¡10,000Â to each of the 7 electoral areas in Ablekuma Central, making it a GHâ‚¡70,000Â welfare support program.
He has helped with the payment of rent and school fees for polling station executives and wards of some known party people.
He has also supported over 30 constituents to be enlisted into the Police Service as Community Assistant Police, with 15 under training at the moment.
Jefferson has donated a motorbike to the NPP Constituency Office to be used in the daily running of the Party’s activities.
CLEAN CAMPAIGN
The Deputy Director of Communications at the Presidency, Jefferson Kwamina Sackey, thanked the constituents for the confidence reposed in his candidature but cautioned against campaign of vilification.
He explained that the main agenda is to reclaim the seat from the National Democratic Congress and thus, the NPP should come out of the primaries even more fortified.
He disagreed with the assertion that the Ablekuma Central constituency is a swing seat, expressing confidence that the NPP has held it for three consecutive terms.
He, therefore, urged his followers to see others competing in the primaries as only having “different ideas” and “not enemies.”
With the slogan ‘New Energy’, he said it is all good energy and energy of positivity, adding that they should eschew violence in the upcoming primaries.
The NPP has opened nominations in all the constituencies it lost in the 2020 parliamentary elections across the country.
