Don’t vote for aspirants who will abandon constituency — Amissah

AParliamentary aspirant contesting the New Patroitic Party (NPP) parliamentary primaries in the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam constituency in the Central Region, Mr John K. Amissah, has advised delegates to not vote for aspirants who will later abandon the constituency when voted into.

The aspirant, who is also the administrator with the Police Education Directorate, called on delegates to vote out aspirants who only visited their constituencies when elections were near but would later abandon them for their selfish gains.

He said the practice whereby people only visited the constituencies when elections were near to express their interest to contest ought to be discouraged by voting them out to serve as a deterrent to others like them.

He said people who visited their backgrounds for the sake of elections were the ones who abandoned the constituencies and the constituents after they had been voted for.

Mr Amissah said “the Npp branch in the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam constituency, therefore, needs somebody who is experienced to recapture the seat from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) party, which won the seat in both 2008 and 2012.”

He said the constituency used to be the stronghold of NPP, which had held the seat since 1996.

He said the NPP had been winning the seat with a wide margin of over 4,000 votes but the NDC captured the seat from the NPP with a margin of some 2,000 votes. He said there was the need for the party delegates to field a candidate who could recapture the seat from the NDC.

Mr Amissah, therefore, urged the delegates for the June 13 primaries “to elect me as I have been tested and understand the dynamics of our constituency.”

He said he was prepared to work with the five paramount chiefs in the area to attract and help the self–employed to expand their businesses.

Mr Amissah indicated that the Atakurase-Abrofoa Ajumako road, which is in a poor state, would be improved as he would solicit the assistance of the Urban Roads Department to tar it.

He said under his guidance, the constituency would be turned into a gari-processing hub and he would make sure that boarding schools bought their supplies from the gari-processing factories in the constituency.

He said the gari could also be exported to neighbouring countries and abroad for the farmers to earn foreign exchange and repay their loans.

Concerning education, the parliamentary aspirant said he would ensure that schoolchildren in the constituency were provided with free textbooks and exercise books and would also advocate the improvement of school infrastructure.

Mr Amissah said so far, two aspirants, Mr Kofi Afful Turkson, 40, an auditor and Mr Ransford Nyarko, 40, a marketing professional had filed their nominations and gone through vetting to contest the primaries with him.