Ama Sey's 'Ghost' Defeat Shows The Kind Of Elections We'll Have In December - Bia East MP
Member of Parliament (MP) for Bia East Constituency, Richard Acheampong says the manner in which the MP for Akwatia constituency in the Eastern Region, Mercy Adu Gyamfi, popularly known as Ama Sey was defeated in the just ended parliamentary primaries is a clear indication of how the 2020 general elections will be if not critically monitored.
"Ama Sey's ghost defeat shows a clear case of how the 2020 elections will be like if processes and activities on election day are not critically looked at and monitored," he said.
"How on earth can ghost names be ticked as voted and as such counted as a delegate," he further asked.
The NDC Communicator in an interview on UTV's 'Adekye Nsroma' programme noted that the 'sacking' of incumbent NPP MP's show how poorly the government in power has performed, therefore, the call for change of government.
"Indeed, facts concerning NPP's Parliamentary primaries show that many incumbent MP's lost their seats due to the poor performance of the government in power," he said.
Richard Acheampong said most MP's were punished for projects they could not build even though it is not in the capacity of MP's to accomplish such works, but the responsibility of government.
Ama Sey blames ghosts for her defeat
Member of Parliament for Akwatia in the Eastern Region, Mercy Adu Gyamfi has rejected results of the ruling NPP parliamentary primaries in the constituency.
According to Ama Sey who unseated NDC’s Baba Jamal in the December 2016 parliamentary elections, there were electoral malpractices during the voting process, hence calling for a recount.
The incumbent who was seeking a second term had 223 votes, losing with four votes to Ernest Kumi who garnered 227 votes.
Other contenders for the Saturday, June 20 primaries in the constituency included: Lawyer Bernard Owiredu and Robert Ampratwum who polled 77 and 13 votes respectively.
Mercy Adu Gyamfi told Daily Guide that she has rejected the final results because there were four dead person names in the register who were declared to have voted.
She explained that during Saturday’s polls, a lot of malpractices took place at some of the polling stations which brought confusion at the constituency office where the final results were announced but everything was brought under control at last.
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