The Acting General Secretary of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu, says the peaceful conduct of the Abuakwa North constituency by-election was because the incumbent\u00a0National Democratic Congress (NDC) did not participate in the polls.<\/p>\n
The NDC according to its General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, pulled out of the race on humanitarian grounds, to sympathize with the NPP, over the gruesome murder of its late MP, Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”XZjmZUGHUqdScAQd9hL8P1PRYvmNMc6C”]Speaking after the elections that was won by the NPP’s candidate, John Boadu insisted that the NDC withdrew based on other reasons and not on sympathy grounds as they suggested.<\/p>\n
He said the\u00a0NDC\u2019s Abuakwa North candidate is\u00a0not a registered voter<\/a><\/strong><\/span> hence the party’s decision to bow out.<\/p>\n \u201cNDC could not put out a candidate because their candidate is not a registered voter and they are waiting for the limited registration exercise to be opened for him to get registered.\u00a0He is like Zanetor Rawlings. If there is any by-election in Klottey Korle she can\u2019t contest. So they should not try to cry more than the bereaved.”<\/p>\n \u201cThey [NDC] didn\u2019t come and that is why we had a peaceful election. We\u2019ve never had such a peaceful election before; if they were here, we would have seen all kinds of noise, snatching of ballot boxes among others. And I think that this is a behaviour that the NDC must stop,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n NPP secures resounding victory in by-election<\/strong><\/p>\n The NPP\u2019s Parliamentary Candidate for the area, Gifty Twum Ampofo on Tuesday secured a comfortable victory<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in the by-elections.<\/p>\n Her widely expected triumph came over challengers, Samuel Frimpong of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP) and the United People\u2019s Party\u2019s Isaac Kwarteng. Mrs Twum Ampofo polled 10,033 votes representing 89.60% the total votes cast.<\/p>\n Samuel Frimpong and Isaac Kwartey\u2019s secured 263 votes (2.35%) and 901 votes (8.05%) respectively.<\/p>\n MP\u2019s death necessitated by-election<\/strong><\/p>\n The by-election was necessitated by the death of the MP for the area, Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu who was stabbed at his residence in Accra by a teenager in February this year.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n