ASAMOAH RETAINED AS KADE NPP CANDIDATE (PAGE 17)

Story: A. Kofoya-Tetteh, Kade

THE Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Ofosu Asamoah, was at the weekend retained to contest the Kade Constituency seat on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
The 38-year-old Ofosu Asamoah, who has been the MP for the area for the past seven years, secured 72 votes to beat three other contestants, Messrs Collins Offei Mintah, George Aboagye and Dr Ankomah Kwakye, who had 53, one and 10 votes respectively.
Mr Ofosu Asamoah called for unity among the rank and file of the party in the constituency, adding that it was only such that would make it possible for the NPP to massively win the December Presidential and Parliamentary elections.
The three defeated candidates pledged their support for Mr Ofosu Asamoah to retain the constituency seat.
The party later in the day held primaries in the Lower West Akyem and Ajwatua constituencies.
At Asamankese where the ballot was cast to elect a candidate for the Lower West Akyem Constituency, Mr James Appiatu Ankrah, the incumbent lost by 23 votes to 63 to Madam Gifty Klenam, a businessman, while at Akwatia, a relatively unknown medical administrator, Dr Kofi Asare, the Ashanti Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service, was elected to contest the constituency seat.
He beat Mr Philip Owusu Ankamah, an electrical contractor, by 65 votes to 33
Addressing the rank and file of the party before the voting at the respective places, the Eastern Regional Chairman of the party, Mr Yaw Gyekye Amoabeng, said although it was obvious that the NPP would retain all the said constituency seats, as well as obtaining majority votes in the presidential election in December, there was the need for hard work for a convincing victory.