The Assin North by-election is scheduled for Tuesday, June 27, 2023, and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is expected to win, according to Evans Nimako, the party's director of research and elections.
He declared that the NPP will seize the seat on June 27 in the Assin North Constituency, which was created out of the Assin Central Constituency.
Mr. Nimako said the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) won the Assin North parliamentary seat by default in 2020 during an interview with the Daily Graphic, claiming the NPP had always won that constituency in both the presidential and parliamentary elections.
For us, the Lords are still in control of the conflict, and victory would be our reward.
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Mr. Nimako said that on Friday, the two party candidates who chose to enter the parliamentary primary were given the go-ahead to run in the election on Wednesday, June 7, 2023.
He named Charles Opoku and Frederick Freeman Amoah-Kyei as the candidates.
The party's internal election comes after the Supreme Court's decision regarding James Gyakye Quayson's eligibility to hold the Assin North seat, which led to the parliamentary declaration that the seat is now vacant and the subsequent announcement by the Electoral Commission (EC) that the by-election would take place on June 27, 2023.
NDC won automatically.
According to Mr. Nimako, Mr. Quayson's win in the 2020 election was inevitable since the Assin North seat, which was created from the NPP's headquarters, had been at Assin Central.
After the Cape Coast High Court and Supreme Court ruled that Mr. Quayson was ineligible to run in the 2020 general election, the NPP Director of Elections said that he could not be trusted as the NDC's candidate for the by-election.
According to Mr. Nimako, the NPP is ready to annex the seat come Tuesday, June 27. "I think the good people of Assin North want to be represented in Parliament by someone who is untarnished, credible, and can represent the interests of the chiefs and the people of Assin North," he continued.
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