Politics of Wednesday, 27 April 2022
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2022-04-27NDC has no choice but to present Gyakye Quayson for Assin North re-election - Ben Ephson
Managing Editor of the Daily Dispatch Newspaper, Ben Ephson
Ephson says NDC can only win Assin North re-election if Quayson is its candidate
Assin North re-election will be a test of popularity for NDC, NPP
Supreme Court bars Gyakye Quayson from holding himself as an MP
Managing Editor of the Daily Dispatch Newspaper, Ben Ephson, has indicated the NDC
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According to Ben Ephson, presenting Gyakye Quayson as its candidate is the only way the NDC (National Democratic Congress) has a chance of winning the Assin North parliamentary seat should a Supreme Court ruling on a substantive matter before it points to re-election.
“I think that if the NDC wants to have a chance of possibly retaining Assin North, they have no choice but to go with Gyakye Quayson, who may get a few sympathy votes from swing voters in the constituency.
“If the NDC decides to pick a new candidate, it is going to be difficult for them to maintain the seat,” asaaseradio.com reports.
In addition, Ben Ephson, who is also a pollster, said that an Assin North re-election will be a test of popularity for the NDC and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and will give the winner some political advantage.
“So, the NPP lost the seat, and I think that Gyakye won because of the father’s popularity. Now, if there’s a by-election and Gyakye decides to contest, and NDC wins it, they’ll say it’s a continuation of their strength and maybe a reflection of the government.
“I think that if the NPP wins the by-election, they will have more political advantage that ‘if you say we’re not doing well, we’ve taken a seat, we’ve won,” he said.
The Supreme Court ruled to affirm a Cape Coast High Court judgement that barred Gyakye Quayson from holding himself as a Member of Parliament until a substance issue before it is determined.
The court is to rule on whether Quayson renounced his Canadian citizenship before he stood for the 2020 parliamentary elections in the Assin North Constitution on the ticket of the NDC.
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