Minister of Trade and Industry, Alan Kyeremanteng, says the rally held at Ayawaso West Wougon by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) was to send a strong signal to the party’s political opponents for what is to be expected in 2020.
According to the politician, the rally, which was to outdoor and solicit support for their parliamentary candidate, Lydia Seyram Alhassan, was just a teaser for their victory, come 2020.
“We know when it comes to this constituency we don’t have to organise a rally but we want to show Ghanaians and the world what we are about and what is to be expected of us,” he stated.
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The rally saw a huge turn out by party supporters who pledged their support to their candidate with many of them claiming they were going to win hands down.
The significance of this by-election, going by conventional political perspectives since the advent of democracy in the Fourth Republic, might be a straight bout between the NPP and the NDC.
In the 2016 election, Mr Agyarko of the NPP polled 32,591, representing 57.32 per cent; Delali Kwasi Brempong, NDC, 22,534, representing 39.63 per cent; William Dowokpor, PPP, had 1,099, representing 1.93 per cent; while Kweku Quansah of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) managed 638 votes, representing 1.12 per cent.
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In 2012, Mr Agyarko of the NPP had 31,807, representing 50.30 per cent; Kwame Awuah-Darko of the NDC had 30,116 votes, representing 47.63 per cent; William Dowokpor, PPP, 998, 1.58 per cent; Antisem Donkor, CPP, 169, 0.27 per cent; Foster Apetor of the National Democratic Party (NDP), 74, 0.12 per cent, and Henry Haruna Asante, PNC, 68, representing 0.11 per cent.