Mr Eric Osei, who has documented his designation as a free parliamentary hopeful for Asokwa, has said even President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is content with his choice to run against the overseeing New Patriotic Party’s occupant MP for the body electorate, Patricia Appiagyei, who additionally happens to be a Deputy Minister of Environment, Science, Technology, and Innovation.
Mr Osei expressed on AccraFM’s morning show on Tuesday, 13 October 2020 that he left the NPP as a chosen voting public coordinator to seek after a performance endeavor at entering parliament in the 7 December 2020 surveys, since, in his view, the occupant has bombed the supporters.
Mr Osei said notwithstanding various calls put to him by heads of the gathering attempting to work him out of the race, he won’t move.
He, nonetheless, denied claims that he wouldn’t meet President Akufo-Addo over the issue, saying the President has not called him on that.
As indicated by Mr Osei, venturing down isn’t a possibility for him since, supposing that he did that, President Akufo-Addo’s discretionary fortunes in the voting public will be broken.
“The President won’t get even 10% if Patricia Appiagyei were disregarded to go. She has fizzled on the ground”, Mr Osei said.
In spite of the fact that the President has asked allies of the NPP to dismiss individuals who go free, Mr Osei demands the President is content with his candidature since he never opposed him when he visited the Ashanti Region for three days as of late.
Mr Osei said the President even visited Asokwa twice yet never raised the subject; a sign, in his view, that the President is agreeable to his free candidature.
“He is very much aware that I’m challenging and I realize the President is content with my candidature since, in such a case that I venture down, his votes will decrease,” Mr Osei affirmed.
Still in the Ashanti Region, another free applicant, Mr Kwaku Duah, who left the NPP to run against the officeholder MP for Kumawu, Mr Philip Basoah, revealed to Prah Jr that: “I was called by some gathering chiefs two months back to revoke my choice yet I said no”.
“We vote in favor of improvement and progress however the occupant MP has fizzled in achieving any advancement in the voting demographic”, he noticed, a circumstance, which he said caused him to choose to run as an autonomous up-and-comer.
As per Mr Duah, the occupant MP is fairly accusing the District Chief Executive and the boss in the region, for his inability to carry advancement to the voting public.
To him, that is an affirmation of disappointment, a, hence, “he should’ve done the fair thing by venturing down.”
“We have a MP who is more awkward than any other individual. He said in light of the fact that his administration was not in power during his initial term, that is the reason he was unable to build up the spot. We gave him one more opportunity however the supporters needs essential things like latrine offices, consumable water, boreholes among others,” he said.
Mr Duah likewise guaranteed the MP isn’t on talking standing with the DCE and his gathering executive, hence, his inability to mobilize advancement to the zone.
In his view, instead of the gathering requesting that he venture down, they ought to be “appreciative to me for choosing to go autonomous since, in such a case that Nana Addo depends on the officeholder MP, he will lose in the electorate.”
“The MP can’t highlight a compartment as an accomplishment in his eight-year term. He is undermining the endeavors of Nana Addo in light of the fact that he has accomplished nothing that will acclimate to the appointive advantage of the President,” Mr Duah pushed.
In the Western Region, another autonomous competitor, Joy Joycelyn Andoh, is looking to expel officeholder NPP MP George Mireku Duker of Tarkwa Nsuaem.
Ms Andoh, who was precluded from the NPP’s parliamentary primaries, said she chose to go free so as she can proceed with the beneficial things she has been doing in the electorate through her NGO since 2014.
As per her, the choice to run for parliament solo was one pushed on her by her allies in the electorate.
“I’ve fabricated a relationship with my kin. I have helped them from numerous points of view with my own assets. I have a ton of road youngsters, the matured and widows that I deal with, in this way, the constituents have understood that with my little assets, I have had the option to do a ton for them and, thus, the amount more on the off chance that I become a MP.”
In the Bono Region, Mr Bernard Oduro Takyi, who likewise left the NPP, has recorded to challenge as a free applicant against officeholder Sunyani West MP Ignatius Baffour Awuah.
Mr Oduro Takyi claims he was dealt with unjustifiably by the gathering by permitting the Minister of Employment and Labor Relations to go unopposed in the parliamentary primaries.
He has pledged to work with whichever competitor dominates the official race should he additionally dominate the parliamentary race.
