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Independent Member of Parliament for Nkawkaw constituency in the Eastern Region, Seth Adjei Baah, popularly called Shaaba, has lost his seat after he decided to seek re-election on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party in a primary held on Saturday. In what looked like a repeat of the 2008 primary, the sitting MP lost to the NPP�s Eastern Regional treasurer, Eric Kwakye Daffour, thus he (Daffuor) was elected as the NPP Parliamentary candidate for the Nkawkaw constituency on Saturday. He beat the incumbent MP, Seth Adjei Baah, a former MP, Kwabena Okekyere Ebisa and three others. Mr. Daffour pulled 192 votes while the former MP, Kwabena Okekyere Ebisa pulled 186 votes. The incumbent MP had 26 votes while Lawyer Joyce Opoku Boateng pulled 102 votes and Mr. Owusu Addo in charge of radio at GBC also pulled 12 votes. It would be recalled that Shaaba, after losing the primaries in 2008 breached party protocol and stood as an independent candidate. He was subsequently expelled from the NPP though he won the Nkawkaw seat to represent his people in parliament, beating the NPP candidate. It however remains unclear if Shaaba will stand as an independent candidate again. Meanwhile, the Deputy Managing Director of Metropolitan Television (TV), Haruna Alhassan has replaced incarcerated Bawku Central MP, Adamu Dramani Sakande, after winning the NPP primaries held in the constituency. The primary was organized to find a replacement for the jailed MP.