Ashanti Region PPP elects 6, confirms 8 executives

The Ashanti regional branch of the Progressive People's Party (PPP) last Saturday confirmed eight and elected six regional executives to steer the party's affairs for the next four years at a peaceful conference.

The election process, guided by officers of the Electoral Commission (EC), was non-violent and orderly, but before the ballots were counted and results declared, majority of the delegates had left the venue,  the Great Hall of the Kumasi Polytechnic, making the place almost empty.

The usual excitement and jubilation that characterise the counting and declaration of intra-political party election results was absent because apart from the candidates, their agents, a handful of party leaders and media personnel, almost all the delegates left after casting their ballot.

Not even the National Chairman of the party, Nii Allotey Brew-Hammond, who had addressed the delegates and the media could stay for the declaration of results.

Before voting, candidates mounted the podium and in a few minutes, presented last-minute campaign messages that were received with applause and cheers from the packed Great Hall.

Unopposed 

The eight candidates who were declared unopposed included the Chairman, Appiah Lawrence; Secretary, Bismark Tetteh; Organiser, Vincent Gyamfi; Assistant Organiser, Armstrong Nana-Bonsu and Women’s Organiser, Beatrice Serwaa.

The rest were: Assistant Women’s Organiser, Harriet Oppong-Mensah; Youth Organiser, Eric Ohene Kwatiah and Assistant  Youth Organiser, Prince Takyi.

Results 

For the six contesting positions, the results were: Vice Chairman, Hunsunih Hamzah, who was elected with 440 votes. He beat Raphael Brobbey (221 votes) and Nana Agyenim Boateng (150). For the position of Treasurer, Isaac Prah had 680 votes, beating his only contender, Yaya Alhassan, who obtained 136 votes.

Peter Aboagye had 583 votes and was declared the Assistant Secretary; his only contender, Anane Frimpong, had 294 votes. 

The Youth Organiser position was won by Haruna Bashiru Langie with 516 votes, after beating Issah Baba Konpoh, who had 232 votes. For Education Secretary, Osei K. Nkrumah was elected with 589 votes, while his contender, Peter Kofi Afriyie, had 223 votes.

Francis Amoah beat Prince Tekyi with 475 to 338 votes for the position of Assistant Youth Organiser.

PPP to select Speaker of Parliament

Addressing the media earlier, the national chairman of the party said the PPP would surprise the entire country in the 2016 elections and the least up their sleeve is that they would garner enough Members of Parliament (MP’s) with at least six from Ashanti Region.

He explained that the number of its elected MPs would be so overwhelming that the PPP would be given the opportunity to select the Speaker of Parliament for the next Parliament.