NPP Orphan Constituencies Primaries: Provisional Results; New Faces Emerge
New Patriotic Party (NPP) delegates on Saturday, December 2nd, went to various polling centres to cast their votes for their parliamentary candidates in orphan constituencies for the 2024 elections. The elections were organised in constituencies where the NPP did not have sitting Members of Parliament and were supervised by the Electoral Commission. The primaries were organised in some 111 constituencies nationwide. Below are provisional results that have trickled in so far:Tamale Central Ismail Yahuza -350 Abass Zakaria – 65*Sule Salifu – 433 Total delegates – 881 Total valid votes cast – 849 Rejected ballots – 2Okwaikwei North Constituency Kenneth Kwabena Agyei Kuanchi – 27 Prince Owusu Mensah – 6 Alberta Afia Akoto – 228 Nyarko Stephen Adipa – 109 Fusseni Issah – 114*Nana Ama Asiamah Adjei – 341 Rejected Ballot – 3 Total valid vote cast: 875 Total Ballot – 828Prestea Huni Valley *Barbara Oteng Gyasi-973 Theophilus Tawiah-255 Total expected delegates-1,399 Votes cast-1,232 Rejected-4Savelugu *Fatahiya Abdul Aziz -532 Muhammed Abdul Samed Gunu – 121 Total delegates – 667 Total valid votes cast- Rejected ballots -3Wa Central *Hajia Umu Awudu -567 Issahaku Moomin Tahiru – 441 Issahaku Nayaru -17Prestea-Huni-Valley *Barbara Oteng-Gyasi-973 Theophilus Tawiah-255 Total expected delegates-1,399 Votes cast-1,232 Rejected-4Bunkpurugu Solomon Boah -264 Sulemana Lawyer Sambia -260 Savelugu 667*Fatahiya Abdul Aziz -532 Muhammed Abdul Samed Gunu-121Adentan *Akosua Asaa Manu – 814 Kwesi Obeng Fosu 638 Winfred Nartey – 16Asawase *Manaf Ibrahim -765 Hajia Zainab Sallow-229 Osman Yussif -9Asuogyaman Constituency *Pius Enam Hadzide – 423 Paul Ansah – 131 Michael Ansah – 113 Nana Abrokwa Asare – 95Ledzokuku Constituency *Dr. Bernard Okoe-Boye – 901 Nii Ashittey Olennu – 357 Clifford Martey – 199 Ibrahim Adjei – 180Manya Krobo *Simon Kwaku Tetteh – 434 Linda Adadevor – 219 Robert Tetteyfio-Adjasey – 142Wa Central *Hajia Umu Awudu -567 Issahaku Moomin Tahiru -441 Issahaku Nayaru -17Tamale South *Musah Fuseini- 608 Ibrahim Baba- 449 Alhassan Soawii- 41 Baba Alhassan- 25Awutu Senya West *Eugene Arhin -862 Amos Kofi Opei Okai- 119Wenchi *Kojo Frempong-361 Albert Ameyaw- 326 Alfred Ofori Anye- 34Odododiodio *Abdul Manaf Nii Adjei Sowah- 737 Nii Lante Bannerman- 524Wassa Amenfi Central *Albert Wiredu Arkoh -547 Anthony Mensah -247Klottey Korle *Valentino Nii Noi Nortey -838 Harry Harold Quartey- 116 Rexford Oppong Ansah -94Ablekuma Central *Jefferson Kwamina Sackey – 539 Collins Amoah – 493 Ebenezer Nartey – 441 Larry Anyetei Adjei – 11 Total votes cast -1,492 Spoilt – 8Wassa Amenfi East Frederick Korankye-371*Ernest Frimpong-630 Frederick Kumah-69 Total Expected delegates-1,136Cape Coast North *Ekow Ewusi- 348 Lawrence Kwaku Ampah -230 Barbara Aisha Ayisi -24 601 votes castWassa East *Mona Gertrude Effah-317 Godfred Okyere Owusu-309 Patrick Tawiah-Amprofi-66 Total votes expected -703 Total Votes cast -693 Rejected-1Wassa Amenfi Central *Albert Wiredu Arkoh-547 Anthony Mensah-247 Total votes expected-856 Total Votes cast-798 Rejected= 4Pru East *Appeh Yusif A. – 316 David Y. Mensah – 93 Joshua K. Abonkrah – 90 Number of delegates -518 Total votes – 501 Valid votes cast -499 Rejected votes -2Lawra *Jacob Dery (MCE) -186 Stephen Kojo Ngmen- 167 Joseph Yeng Faalong -106 Rejected- 5 Spoil -2 Total cast- 464Bolgatanga Central *Elvis Figo Awonekai -618 Abileo Rowfield -82 Agana Rashid Bawa -53 Rejected – 1Cape Coast South *Ernest Arthur – 290 Sarah Afful – 279 James Watemberg – 9 Number of Delegates – 598 Total votes cast – 579 Rejected – 1Sege *Dodji Numekevor – 293 Eunice Lasi -170Komenda Edna Eguafo-Abirem *Percyval Quaicco -429 Ebenezer Agyemang – 246 Samuel Kofi Dentu -274 No of rejected ballots m- 3Klottey Korle *Nii Noi Nortey – 838 Harry Quartey- 116 Rexford Oppong- 94 Total vote cast -1,048Jirapa *Aisha Salifu -364 Nicholas Soyiri -331 Rejected -7 Spoiled -0Wa East NPP *Mahama Sulemana DCE -325 Yakubu Salifu-191 Isaac Halitu -105