We will recapture Wenchi Constituency seat from the NDC in election 2024 – NPP Chairman Aspirant

Mr. Richard Kwadwo Adu, an aspiring chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Wenchi Constituency has promised to recapture the constituency seat in Election 2024.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) grabbed the seat in the 2020 general election, one of the traditional seats of the NPP in the Bono Region.

Speaking in an

Read full articleinterview at Wenchi during a visit by Madam Justina Owusu-Banahene, the Bono Regional Chairman, Mr. Adu said the party would not only take back the seat but would also increase its presidential votes as well.

Accompanied by other key staff of the Bono Regional Coordinating Council, Mad Owusu-Banahene was in the area to interact with the people in identifying and helping to tackle their development needs.

Mr. Adu, a former Wenchi constituency youth organiser of the NPP, and former Assemblyman for the Ntoase Electoral Area in the Wenchi Municipality apologised to the leadership of the NPP for losing the seat.

“Our political ancestors are not even happy about this great loss,” he said, saying the party had learnt a lot of lessons from the Election 2020.

He emphasised that Wenchi still remained a stronghold of the NPP, despite the party's abysmal performance in the parliamentary election in the 2020 elections and implored other candidates and their followers to be decorous in the campaign.

He said the use of abusive language and derogatory remarks in the campaign could cause divisions and affect the party’s unity in the constituency.

Mr. Adu reminded the leadership party against the imposition of parliamentary candidates which caused the NPP dearly in the previous elections and stressed the need for the NPP to create equal opportunity for all aspirants to contest various positions in the party too.

He said his decision to contest for the constituency chairman was to ensure that the NPP won both presidential and parliamentary elections in Election 2024.

“This is the time we must identify and bring on board every disgruntled member and supporter in the electioneering.

“As we prepare for the 2024 polls, which are close, we must also endeavour to identify and tackle pertinent challenges that confronted us, in order not to repeat those challenges in the next general election,” he said.

Mr. Adu also called on the party to adequately resource the various constituencies, saying the polling stations and supporters at the grassroots remained the party’s pillars and backbones.