Afrifa Mensah
Akwasi Owusu
Afrifa is the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for the Amasaman
constituency.
Mr. Afrifa who is also the Deputy Director of Finance for MASLOC as vowed to win the Amasaman Constituency seat for the ruling party come 2020.
Speaking in an
interview with the media after his victory he pleaded with the electorate to
come together as one in their quest to snatch the seat from the National
Democratic Congress (NDC).
“Winning the
seat does not require someone who has been present mostly in the elections.
Sometimes it needs a new face. I don’t hold any bad record so I believe we can
move forward. I am a God-fearing person and humbled and I strongly believe the
people of Amasaman will vote for me when they get to know my behavior, so we
can strip the seat from the NDC” he emphasized.
He said he would
lobby for developmental projects for the area as he believed they were far
behind when it came to development.
The Director of
Elections and Research for NPP, Evans Nimako, who monitored the parliamentary
primary held over the weekend, also said the Amasaman Constituency was the only
orphan constituency in Greater Accra without a candidate.
He said the party
was enthusiastic and firm after conducting their elections; he was hopeful that
the NPP will marshal the needed forces to win the seat.
According to him,
it doesn’t take a candidate to win an election but it takes the whole NPP
machinery and thinks with the kind of unity exhibited they will win the seat
with a new candidate in 2020.
At the end of the
primary, Afrifa pulled 346 votes out of the 671 total votes casted, beating the
Municipal Chief Executive of the area, Clement Nii Lantey Wilkinson, the
former parliamentary candidate who had 304 votes.
The other two contestants, Muriel Nana Oye Coffie Ago and Isaac Kwaku Minta Sackey had eight and 10 votes respectively.
BY Daniel Bampoe
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