Unite behind winning candidates: NDC urged

Members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Tema East Constituency have been urged to solidly unite behind Mr Robert Kempes Ofosuware, its elected parliamentary candidate, to ensure victory in the 2016 elections.

Mr Ofosuware, a former Metropolitan Chief Executive of Tema, emerged winner of the recently held parliamentary primaries in the constituency with 2,731 votes against 1,235 by his closest contender, Mr Michael Nii Abbey.

Mr Stephen Ashitey Adjei, popularly known as Moshake, an Executive Member of Tema East NDC, who gave the advice in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, said differences between supporters of the four candidates who contested for the slot must be done away with to provide a strong force for the campaign towards the main election.

Mr Adjei said the only way to snatch the constituency seat from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) was to present a united front since the party lost by only three votes to the candidate of its opponent during the 2012 election who is the same person for 2016.

He said the perception among some members that Mr Ofosuware’s contender was the favourite of Mr Isaac Ashai Odamtten, Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive, must not take centre stage during campaigning towards the election.

He said all the four candidates who contested for the slot were favourites of some people in the party but such support must be dropped after a candidate had been duly elected to represent the party.