Former Agric Minister Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto on Wednesday, June 21, defied heavy rains in the Assin North area to campaign for Charles Opoku, the NPP parliamentary candidate for the upcoming by-election.
Notable among the areas the NPP flagbearer hopeful visited are Assin Bereku (district capital), Assin Praso, Assin Asempaneye, Akenkanse, Akonfudi, Dansami, Assen Mempasem, Assin Kushia, Assin Senkyem, Assin Brofoyedu, Assin Juaso, Assin Breman, and Bediadua.In all the areas he visited, Dr Akoto interacted with the people and urged them to vote massively for Charles Opoku to enable him to lobby for more developmental projects for the communities.
He was accompanied by the National Chairman of the party, Stephen Ayensu Ntim, General Secretary, Justin Frimpong Kodua, National Organiser, Henry Nana Boakye (Nana B), Deputy Majority Leader, Alexander Afenyo Markin, and the Minister of State at the Ministry of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development, Osei Bonsu Amoah.The rest were the campaign chairman for Dr Afriyie’s campaign team, and former Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the party, Alfred Boye, National Coordinator for the campaign, Peter Oteng Darko, Central Regional First Vice-Chairman of the party, Assin North NPP Constituency Chairman, District Chief Executive, Assin North, Cape-Coast Municipal Chief Executive, Assin-North constituency executives and several women organizers from the various polling stations in Assin North.
Local rice farmers ambush Dr Akoto
When the news hit the Assin North District that Dr Afriyie Akoto was in town and had started campaigning for Charles Opoku, some rice farmers in the district gathered themselves to meet him at the District Capital, Assin Bereku.
e expressed his appreciation to the rice farmers for honouring him and assured them of President Akufo-Addo’s commitment to supporting their activities.
Background
The relationship between the rice farmers and Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto dates back to when he was the Kwadaso MP and a Ranking Member of the Food, Agriculture and Cocoa Affairs Committee.
It was during one of their meetings that the then government led by John Dramani Mahama sent a proposal from the Korean Ambassador to Ghana to Parliament about a programme they had designed to study the economic potentials of the Central Region.
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Former Agric Minister Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto on Wednesday, June 21, defied heavy rains in the Assin North area to campaign for Charles Opoku, the NPP parliamentary candidate for the upcoming by-election.
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