The Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency Chairman of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Bismarck Aborbi-Aayitey, has confirmed to Accra100.5FM’s morning show Ghana Yensom that the party has pulled out of the ongoing by-election over gun violence that greeted the voting process at the La Bawaleshie JHS polling station.
The party has, therefore, directed all its polling station agents and officers to leave the various centres.
“This incident never happened under Atta Mills, it never happened under Kufuor, it didn’t happen under Mahama. So, why is it happening under Akufo-Addo? This is the ‘all-die-be-die’ that Akufo-Addo talked about. We are pulling out and God will punish the President and the NPP”, Mr Aborbi-Aayitey told Kwabena Prah Jnr (The Don) on Thursday, 31 January 2019.
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A man was briefly arrested and released by officials believed to be working with the National Security at a polling centre in Baweleshie for allegedly taking pictures in the ongoing by-election in the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency.
The development, according to Starr News’ reporter on the ground, created chaos at the centre as voters argued over the seeming high-handedness of the security agency.
The by-election has been necessitated by the demise of the MP of the area Emmanuel Agyarko.
Mr Kyeremanteng Agyarko died in November at a hospital in the United States after a protracted ailment.
Political watchers say the polls is a straight fight between one of the late MP’s wive’s Lydia Alhassan and the NDC’s Delali Kwesi Brempong.
Meanwhile, Pollster Ben Ephson has predicted the governing New Patriotic Party may retain the margin of victory over their rival National Democratic Congress.
“In 2016, few months to the constituency elections in Madina, the NDC incumbent brought sand and stones on abandoned projects but that didn’t work any magic at all. He lost the elections. The gap between the NDC and the NPP in the Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency by-elections is likely to be the same,” he said.
In 2016, the late Agyarko garnered 32,591 votes representing 57.32% of the votes while the NDC’s Delali secured 22,534 votes representing 39.63% of the votes.
