THE Presiding Member of the Atiwa District Assembly, Mr Kwasi Amoako Atta, has been elected as the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for the Atiwa Constituency by-election.
The by-election slated for August 31 had become necessary due to the death of Mr Kwasi Annor Ankamah, the Member of Parliament of the constituency, in the middle of the year.
Mr Amoako Atta, a lawyer, polled 361 votes to beat two other contestants, Madam Abena Ansa Asare, a banker, who had 196 votes and Mr Kwasi Osei Agyepong, the immediate past District Chief Executive of the area, who obtained 15 votes.
In his acceptance speech, Mr Amoako Atta who was flanked by the newly elected flag bearer of the NPP, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, assured the gathering that he would at all cost win the seat which had been occupied by the NPP since 1996.
He therefore called for support from the rank and file of the party and the entire people of the area for a convincing victory on August 31.
Both Madam Abena Ansa Asare and Mr Osei Agyepong assured Mr Amoako Atta of their support.
Nana Akufo-Addo who for the first time appeared in public after his re-election as flag bearer of the NPP at the weekend predicted the doom of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) which according to him had failed Ghanaians.
He described the Mills Administration as slow, incompetent and having brought a lot of untold hardships to the people and gave the assurance that the NPP would restore hope to the teeming Ghanaians by reorganising poverty alleviation initiatives such as the youth and agriculture programme, the health insurance scheme and others.
“The go slow Mills Administration has nothing to offer Ghanaians so the NPP will from 2012 start rolling out the good things for Ghanaians who are now worse off after we lost the 2008 elections.”
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