A total of nine incumbent Members of Parliament (MP) lost their bid to contest 2020 on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) at the just ended a parliamentary primaries.
524 candidates contested the internal polls in 157 constituencies out of 275 to represent the largest opposition party in Parliament in the 2020 General Elections.
Thirty-nine Members of Parliament were unopposed. Delegates in 71 constituencies will later to go to the polls to elect their candidates.
However, Director of Elections of the NDC, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, in an interview with Doctar Cann and Mac-Paradise Okocha hosts on Happy FM’s special coverage of the NDC primaries, said “it has been so far so good” across the 16 regions of Ghana despite pockets of misunderstandings at some areas. I must say this the most peaceful I have so far witnessed.”
The MPs who lost are:
Emmanuel Nii Okai Laryea [Amasaman constituency]
Joseph Yieleh Chireh [Wa west constituency]
Mathias Kwame Ntow [Aowin constituency]
Amenga-Etogo [Chiana Paga constituency]
Ras Mubarak [Kumbungu constituency]
Francis Dakura [Jirapa constituency]
Kwesi Asiamah [Buem constituency]
Aziz Abdul Muniru [Akan constituency]
Eric Osei-Owusu [Afram Plains South constituency]
By: Joseph Nii Ankrah
