The Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, is leading a delegation to the Kumawu Constituency to campaign for the party’s parliamentary candidate in the upcoming by-election.
Slated for May 23, 2023, the by-election follows the death of the MP for the constituency who will be buried on Saturday.
The leadership of the NDC has been in the constituency supporting the candidate, Akwasi Amankwa, and his executives in the campaign.
President Mahama is joining the national chairman and others already on the ground to lend his support to the campaign.
Mr. Mahama is expected to call on the chief of Kumawu, before meeting various groupings to campaign.
Notice of Polls
Meanwhile, the Notice of Poll published by the Electoral Commission ahead of the May 23 exercise indicated that there were four candidates who were contesting the by-election.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate, Ernest Yaw Anim, is the number one on the ballot paper; the National Democratic Congress candidate, Kwasi Amankwa, takes the second spot while the third and fourth positions are for two independent candidates who bear the same name.
Recall
Parliament, before adjourning sine die for the Easter holidays, notified the EC of the need to conduct a by-election in the Kumawu Constituency following the death of Philip Basoah, the NPP MP for the area.
Mr Basoah, 53, was a Member of the Seventh and Eighth Parliaments of the Fourth Republic.
EC
The Electoral Commission (EC) has informed all stakeholders in the upcoming Kumawu by-election in the Ashanti Region that it is well equipped to conduct the polls as mandated.
In an interview with the Ashanti Regional Director of the EC, Benjamin Bano- Bioh last Wednesday (May 17), he stressed that the EC had made available all the materials needed for the election, except for some ballot papers which were currently being printed and should be ready by today (Friday, May 19, 2023).
