{"id":124669,"date":"2015-06-13T15:31:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T15:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=124669"},"modified":"2015-06-13T15:55:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T15:55:13","slug":"npp-primaries-minority-leader-retained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/06\/npp-primaries-minority-leader-retained\/","title":{"rendered":"NPP primaries: Minority Leader  retained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Minority Speaker in Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu has been retained as the parliamentary candidate for the Suame constituency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He won with 283 votes while his other contenders including John Darko, Genfi Boateng and Richard Soadwa got 89, 66 and 54 votes respectively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;pctnaAi0T3mKEfl7TNpbqHYiyX1lvqDM&#8221;]Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu who was fiercely contested in the primaries had earlier urged the leadership of the party to allow him to go unopposed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Though he was hopeful of being retained, \u00a0Mensah Bonsu\u00a0raised concerns about the failure of the party leadership to protect him considering the fact that he is the leader of the Minority side in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was of the view that \u00a0the practice where the party allows its leader in Parliament to be challenged is undemocratic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some MPs including some members from the Majority side of the House have also been advocating for him to go unopposed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>I\u2019ve not failed Suame Constituency <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Minority leader dismissed assertions that his <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/06\/13\/all-my-worries-might-just-be-a-storm-in-a-tea-cup-minority-leader\/#sthash.VZYAcdVP.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\">failure to develop the constituency<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in 19 years is what has led to the stiff competition he is facing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He accused his opponents of concocting such lies to make them look viable to the delegates. Mensah Bonsu was confident that the residents in his constituency \u201cappreciate what I have been able to achieve not only in the Suame Constituency, but for the regional party, the national party, for Parliament as an institution and for country Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2026come tomorrow, you will see the results and I believe that God is control and as far as I am concerned, it will be victory for Kyei Mensah Bonsu.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He further expressed his appreciation to his colleagues in Parliament who have been speaking on his behalf for him to be retained as MP for Suame.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin A. 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