Everything is ready for the Ayawaso by-election tomorrow

Everything is ready for the Ayawaso by-election tomorrow

The campaigns of the four political parties and their candidates competing for the seat of the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency complied with the constitutional requirement to end such activities 48 hours in advance of the scheduled polls.

The four political parties; the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the Liberal Party of Ghana (GPL), the Progressive People's Party (PPP) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) closed their campaigns yesterday with the conviction of being able to annex the seat became vacant at the Following the death of the incumbent, Mr. Emmanuel Kyeremateng Agyarko, on November 21, 2018, who was later buried last weekend.

LPG

Addressing the Daily Graphic in separate interviews, Clement Boadi, a candidate for LPG, said the party had engaged with the electorate for this reason, "winning is something for which we do not compromise, that's why we put everything and left nothing to chance. "

NDC

The NDC candidate, Delali Kwasi Brempong, says he does not believe that the NPP candidate could pose a threat to his chances of winning the seat.

He said his confidence was based on the fact that he had already garnered more than 20,000 votes in the 2016 elections and that his main candidate, the NPP candidate, had nothing to show except a new unknown face with challenges.

PPP

For his part, the PPP candidate, Mr. William Dowokpor, said that he had observed that the wind of change did not blow in favor of the NPP as it did in 2016.

It's rather against the NPP and the NDC, arguing that in 2016, the wind of change was strongly unfavorable to the NDC because people just wanted them to be out of power.

He insisted that, with the support of the remaining nkrumist parties, he was confident of becoming the new MP for the constituency.

Nuclear plant

Ms. Alhbadan, for her part, said that security, sanitation, scholarships, women's empowerment and youth entrepreneurship would be her priorities if she won the seat .

She thanked the sympathizers and residents of the constituency and asked them to continue to remember her, especially on Thursday, election day.

CE and police

Mr. Kwame Amoah, regional chairman of the Greater Accra Electoral Commission (EC), told the Daily Graphic that preparations are underway for the success of the polls and that all modalities have been put in place so that nothing will spoil voting. success of the by-election.

Mr. Patrick Adusei Sarpong, Deputy Commander of Ghana Police, said that the command deployed 600 police officers to ensure the safety of the exercise and that no unwanted behavior on the part of any person or a group of people would not be tolerated by the police. police.

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