Bernard Oduro Takyi, an independent parliamentary candidate for Sunyani West Constituency has commended the Office of the Electoral Commission for District for ‘excellent voters registration exercise’.
According to Bernard Oduro in a statement, his team, team B.O.T [Bernard Oduro Takyi] followed keenly with great vigilance, commitment and determination to encourage many voters to turn out to register. “We adopted door to door approach, cells meetings, community engagements, information centers and radio engagements. These varied media & approaches turned out very affirmative.”
He however revealed that the our door to door exercise, cells meetings, community engagements and media interactions by his team contributed to the upsurge in the Total Provisionally Registered Voters of 2,131 as compared to the 2016 Existing Album in the district.
Meanwhile, the Electoral Commission at the press conference on Friday, August 7 revealed that about 16,663,669 Ghanaians have been captured in the just ended compilation exercise of a new voters register.
The EC, the top four regions with the highest number of registered electorates included; the Greater Accra region and Ashanti region.
Below is the release
PRESS RELEASE
TEAM B.O.T COMMENDS THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION OF SUNYANI WEST FOR THE EXCELLENT VOTERS REGISTRATION EXERCISE.
The Leadership of Team B.O.T that followed the Voters Registration Exercise which started on June 30th, 2020 and ended on August 9th, 2020 will like to commend the Office of the Electoral Commission of Sunyani West District for the excellent exercise. ‘’Kokromoti Power is the truest test of democracy but the Independent Referee who exercises wisdom and fairness in his/her modus operandi requires commendation when it is due’’. ‘’In line with our inordinate passion to change the face of the Parliamentary Leadership of Sunyani West cometh December 7th, 2020 it became imperative that to bring into fruition the NEW PLAN FOR SUNYANI WEST required the involvement of Team B.O.T in the entire Voters Registration Exercise from Phase 1 to the Mop-up period.
We followed keenly with great vigilance, commitment and determination to encourage many voters to turn out to register. We adopted door to door approach, cells meetings, community engagements, information centers and radio engagements. These varied media & approaches turned out very affirmative. Team B.O.T from the onset till the final day visited all the 38 Electoral Areas. We can state confidently that close to 10% of the Eligible Voters in Sunyani West had decided not to register and even if they do will not vote come December 7th, 2020 for many obvious reasons paramount of which being the abysmal performance of the Sitting Member of Parliament, Hon Ignatius Baffour Awuah.
Team B.O.T sold a message of hope and endeared the residents of Sunyani West Constituency/Municipality to the RESCUE MISSION that is yet to happen. We assured the many apathetic voters that Hon. Bernard Oduro Takyi will for the very first time in the history of Ghana launched a Manifesto as an Aspiring Member of Parliament that is backed by a Social Contract Agreement. The Manifesto which has 8 Stated Policies has commitment from a Young Leader who will work with all Stakeholders of Sunyani West to create a Paradigm Shift of a New Leadership that is grounded in Vision, Competence and Integrity. Sunyani West should be bracing itself up for a dynamic Young Leader who is hungry for development with key focus on the Youth, Women and the Business Community. The quest for development far exceeds partisanship and parochial interest. The bottomline is simple; ‘’SUNYANI WEST IS UNDERDEVELOPED AND NEEDS REAL DEVELOPMENT.
For the records we wish to reiterate that our door to door exercise, cells meetings, community engagements and media interactions contributed to the upsurge in the Total Provisionally Registered Voters of 2,131 as compared to the 2016 Existing Album. With reference to the 2016 Existing Album with extrapolation to the 2019 District Level Election, Sunyani West had a Certified Registered Voters of 71,617. This Figured has gone up to a Provisional Registered Voters of 73,748 representing a positive increment of 2,131 (2.98%). This is likely to go up further as Challenged Voters shall be adjudicated and those with Clearance shall be added to the 2,131 New Registered Voters. Team B.O.T anticipates the additional Voters to inch up to 2,300 representing a percentage increment of 3.21%. Team B.O.T has projected to win the 2020 Parliamentary Election between 35,000 to 40,000 of the Registered Voters of almost 74,000.
I wish to use this medium to commend all Enthusiastic Staff of the Sunyani West Electoral Commission, Political Parties, Nananom, Sunyani West Municipal Assembly, The Security Services especially Ghana Police Services, Ghana Armed Forces, Media (Radio, Television & Community Information Centers), the Residents of Sunyani West and most importantly all the Volunteer Groups of Team B.O.T in all the 38 Electoral Areas of Sunyani West. I will like to commend the Security & Logistics Unit of Team B.O.T for the unflinching love and commitment that was demonstrated throughout the entire Voters Registration Exercise. ‘’We are going, Heavens knows we are going, the road will be tough and muddy but we will surely get there cometh December 7th, 2020. B.O.T: MMER3 NOAA NIE, B.O.T: NEW PLAN FOR SUNYANI WEST, B.O.T: Y33SESA MU! Thank you.
Yours-in-service
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Hon. Bernard Oduro Takyi
Independent Parliamentary Candidate
Sunyani West Constituency.
Cc; All Media Houses
District Police Commander, Sunyani West
District Electoral Officer, EC Sunyani West.
DATED: TUESDAY, AUGUST 11TH, 2020.
