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NPP and NDC brace up for Akwatia election re-run
By Awudu Salami Sule, Ghanadot

 

Accra, July 21, Ghanadot - Even before date will be set by the Electoral Commission (EC) for the re-run of an election in six polling stations at the Akwatia constituency in the Eastern Region, the two leading political parties in the country, New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) are lasing their political boots to fight for the only seat in the country yet to get a Member of Parliament.


The Supreme Court recently ruled in favour of the Electoral Commission and called for the election to be held in only six polling stations instead of the whole constituency, as petitioned by the NDC Parliamentary Candidate, Baba Jamal and two other independent candidates.


The six polling stations were characterised by electoral fraud as well as reported cases of ballot box snatching.


In an interview with Ghanadot, Dr Kofi Asare, the Parliamentary candidate of the New Patriotic Party promised to win the seat for the party. He said with only six polling station remaining, he stands certain to win the seat.


He revealed that even before the Electoral Commission would come out with a date for the election, he and his team were on the ground canvassing for votes and victory is certain.


"Akwatia constituency is already a strong hold for the NPP and we are going to prove it to the world" he noted.


For his part, the Eastern Regional Organiser of the National Democratic Congress, Mr Tawiah Boateng was also hopeful that his party would win the seat.


He said in interview that the NDC's parliamentary candidate, Mr Baba Jamal has achieved a lot for the constituency and there is no way the NPP would retained the seat.


Though he conceaded that the NPP was slightly head, he promise to over-turn it.


He said the NDC would give NPP the same dosage it gave to it during the run-off election at the Akwatia constituency.


"In the December 7 general elections, Nana Akufo Addo, the Presidential candidate of NPP had almost 49% and Prof Mills had 47%.

 

But the NDC manage to over-turn the votes in its favour in the run-off election and Mills had over 50 per cent of the vote cast while Nana Addo remained in his 49 per centage mark.That is exactly what will happen at Akwatia", he said.


Meanwhile, the Mr Ben Ephson, a pollster and editor of the Daily Dispatch newspaper has predicted a win for the New Patriotic Party.
He said, apart from the six polling station that were characterised by violence, the NPP took the lead in the remaining polling station counted by the EC.


"The New Patriotic Party parliamentary candidate was leading with over 3000 votes and with only six polling stations left, the NDC can not pull any surprise", Mr Ben Ephson noted in the Friday edition of the Daily Dispatch.

 

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