What's The Big Deal If NDC Wins Assin North bye-Election? – Nana Akomea

Nana Akomea, managing director of State Transport Company (STC), is unfazed by the National Democratic Congress' (NDC) triumph in the by-election for Assin North.

According to him, the NDC only retained a seat they won in the 2020 election, so there is no reason to be surprised.

What is all the fuss about? This is an NDC seat won in the 2020 election; two years later, they field the same candidate in a byelection, he said on Accra's Metro TV.

James Gyakye Quayson of the NDC won Tuesday's bye-election with 17,245 ballots, or 57.56 percent of valid votes.

Charles Opoku of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) came in second with 12,630 votes, or 42.15 percent of valid ballots, while Bernice Enam Sefanu of the Liberal Party of Ghana received only 87 votes, or 0.2 percent.

The startling news for the former Okaikwei North representative would have been the NPP's victory in capturing the seat.

"The people voted for the NDC because they preferred the candidate, so the NDC has retained the seat, but it is not a reflection of the president's performance because this is not the presidential election," he stated.



Mr. Quayson won the 2020 election with 17,498 ballots, or 55.21 percent, to the then-NPP candidate Abena Durowaa Mensah's 14,193 votes, or 44.79 percent.