A parliamentary aspirant of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem Constituency, Mr. Samuel Kofi Dentu, says the party’s quest to win the parliamentary seat from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) would be in vain unless a unifier was elected as its candidate.
A unifier, he explained, would be able to unite all the seeming factions and camps within the rank and file of the party, so that the NPP would present a unified front that would be able to overturn the dominance of the NDC in the constituency.
Mr. Dentu made this known to The Chronicle in an exclusive interview when he affirmed his decision to contest the upcoming primaries by officially submitting his nomination forms at the constituency party office in Elmina over the weekend.
According to him, he was loved, appreciated, and accepted by the constituents, who see him as a unifier with the magic wand to break the NDC’s continuous dominance and win the seat for the NPP for the second time.
He said: “By God’s grace, I have acquired a lot of knowledge on how to bridge the leadership gap and bring about initiatives that would better the lot of the people and ameliorate their plights.”
Call to serve
The aspirant added that with the wealth of experience he had gained over the years as a grassroots person, who understood the dynamics of the constituency, it would be a great disservice to his people, and the constituency at large, if he did not contest.
“I think that I will do my people a very big disservice if I don’t come to contest, because I see that there is a leadership gap in the constituency, and I believe that I have what it takes to fill the gap, and so this is a service to my people,” he said.
Mr. Dentu stated that he had built a strong network over the years, which would enable him to change the narratives of the constituency and improve the economy of the area if he leads the party and get elected as the Member of Parliament.
Surmounting NDC’s dominance in Komenda
Mr. Dentu, who is the deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Export Promotion Authority, indicated that, votes from Komenda town and its enclaves mostly helped the NDC to win both the presidential and parliamentary elections.
As a native of Komenda, he indicated that his strong link with the local people would enable him to secure more votes for the NPP, which would go a long way to break the dominance of the opposition NDC in the constituency.
Campaign manager’s remarks
On his part, the manager of Mr. Dentu’s campaign, Mr. Robert Amoah explained that the governing party has given the constituency its fair share of the national cake in terms of development.
This, he said, must be capitalised on by the party to improve its electoral fortunes in the constituency to win both the presidential and parliamentary elections which have mostly been won by the NDC all the time.
However, Mr. Amoah added that notwithstanding the level of development the constituency has witnessed under the government, the party would need no other person than Mr. Dentu as the parliamentary candidate to achieve its dreams.
“Those who claim to be so popular and must be allowed to lead are the same people whose actions and inactions have deteriorated the party and made it less attractive to most of the voters for which reason we always lost,” he added.
He described Mr. Dentu as a unifier who would be able to mend all cracks within the party, make it more attractive to even those who are not sympathetic to the NPP to enable the party to win more votes in the constituency to “break the 8”.
