The Sekyere Afram Plains parliamentary seat is now the target of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the December elections.
The party has been making frantic efforts to annex the seat the seat that had been occupied by the opposition NDC for the past 16 years.
The NPP has resolved to redeem the 156 votes deficit it suffered in the 2020 elections.
In 2016, Alex Adomako-Mensah of the NDC beat Joseph Owusu with 5,644 votes (60.85%) against 3,549 votes (38.26%).
Attempts by NPP to make amends and capture the seat in the 2020 election were not good enough, as the NDC retained the seat by beating the NPP candidate, Joseph Gyamfi Owusu by 156  votes, having improved upon the 2016 votes by 49.29% (7,923) against NDC‘s 8,079 votes (50.49%).
With this background, the NPP is now poised to prop up its candidate, George Akom, to outwit his NDC counterpart, Hajia Naziru Afrah.
The Ashanti Regional NPP Council of Elders on Wednesday engaged members of the Constituency Council of Elders, party executives and polling station executives in a crisis meeting to prioritise their goals.
Led by the Regional chairperson, Mrs. Rosemond Appiah-Menka, a 10-member delegation of the Regional Council of Elders has charged all stakeholders, party activists and functionaries, including parliamentary candidate Akom, the District Chief Executive Sulemana Hamidu and Constituency Chairman, Zakaria Rufai, to intensify campaign and leave no stone unturned in the party’s bid to take over the parliamentary seat.
They were admonished to bury their differences and move to the nook and cranny of all the 106 communities of the constituency dominated by settler farmers of various ethnic extractions particularly at Issahkuraa, Abenoa, Dawiakrom and Mempekasa.
The set target is for the activists to work in unity to defend the ideals of the party in order to annex the seat.
The Council of Elders has also charged all members of the campaign team to up their communication skills and tout the achievements of the party in the constituency to attract voters and ensure that they vote in their numbers.
Members of the delegation of the Ashanti NPP Council of Elders to Drobonso last Wednesday to assess the party’s strengths and challenges ahead of the December elections included
Dr. Moussa Jabir Kebir, Vice chairman; Victor Owusu Jnr. (Secretary), Nana Adu Gyamfi, Kofi Frimpong (former MP, Kwabre East), Nana Kwadwo Boateng; F.F. Anto, former NPP Regional chairman and former First National Vice Chairman; Nana Wiafe Ababio, Board chairman of the National Ambulance Service; Madam Mary Duodu, Regional School Feeding Coordinator, Madam Serwaa Derchie, first Ashanti Regional Women’s Organiser and former MCE for Ejisu.
