National Democratic Congress (NDC) incumbent Member of Parliament MP for Shai Osu Doku, David Tetteh Assumeng, has announced he will not participate in the party\u2019s primary to elect a new Parliamentary aspirant going into the November elections.<\/p>\n
The incumbent MP\u2019s decision is in solidarity with the party\u2019s Parliamentary Candidate, Desmond William Ocloo, who was killed in a gory car crash near Juaso in the Ashanti Region last week.<\/p>\n
Desmond William Ocloo won the party\u2019s primary in November 2015, to become the Parliamentary Candidate in the Shai Osudoku Constituency for the 2016 general elections in November.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”GQQhDAKo3ZMDauorAEaKmvnKjSRwCspO”]He triumphed over David Tetteh-Assumeng, who has been in Parliament since 2004.<\/p>\n
Mr. Ocloo during the primary polled 4,350 votes while David Tetteh Assumeng had 1280.<\/p>\n
Other aspirants in the race included the Director of the National Service Secretariat (NSS), Dr. Kpessah Whyte, who polled 3,189 votes, while Ebenezer Adzakli had 393.<\/p>\n
His demise albeit sad, somewhat would have helped Tetteh-Assumeng who came 3rd in the first primary to be elected.<\/p>\n
But speaking on the floor of Parliament on Tuesday to contribute to the debate on President John Mahama’s 2016 State of the Nation Address, Mr. Tetteh-Assumeng\u00a0announced his decision not to contest the party\u2019s primary.<\/p>\n
In a short contribution that lasted for less than five minutes, Mr Assumeng, said it was with a “heavy-heart” that he was on his feet to debate the President’s address “for the last time”.<\/p>\n
His mood and the tone in which he spoke, reflected a broken man; first, perhaps, because of the tragic death of the man who beat him to the NDC ticket late last year, and second because he will not be a part of a new Parliament to be inaugurated on January 7, 2017.
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\nBy: Richard Sky\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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