NPP Decides: Effiduase-Asokore MP retains seat with 87 percent votes
NPP Decides: Effiduase-Asokore MP retains seat with 87 percent votes
Incumbent Member of Parliament for Effiduase Constituency of the Ashanti Region, Dr. Nana Ayew Afriyie has retained his seat as the party’s candidate come December.
Dr. Nana Ayew Afriyie polled 332 votes out of the total number of 427 votes cast.
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His contender lawyer Kwame Adom Appiah who earlier on stormed the Owuramso electoral area in the Ashanti Region and made away with their electoral album polled 68 votes. Effiduase-Asokore MP retains seat going into the 2020 elections
A polling station organizer, Kwesi Sefa has disclosed to GhanaWeb that a team of about 15 men allegedly stormed the Owuramso electoral area in the Ashanti Region.
Speaking to Ghanaweb, he said “they were a number of about 15 people with 3 salon cars. When they got here, we thought they were just like observing. So they went to one of the aspirants their agent and they spoke to the person,”
He added that some of the men proceeded to speak to some representatives of the Electoral Commission, demanding to look into the electoral album and they were given access. They then absconded with it.
“They were talking to them, so we were just standing somewhere looking at whatever is going on. So they demanded that they should give them the album for them to go through, for which the electoral commission, their people also obliged and gave it to them for them to check and so upon checking, all that we heard was ‘take it away, take it away’, so one of the guys took the album and entered into one of the salon vehicles, they all entered and just drove away,” he further explained.
Source: www.ghanaweb.com