NDC race: Central Region NDC rejects Aquinas Tawiah

A former Central Regional Minister Aquinas Tawiah Quansah has failed to win the Central regional chairmanship contest of the National Democratic Congress after placing  last with 157 votes.

Aquinas Tawiah Quansah,with a huge support from the outgoing chairman Bernard Allotey Jacobs, was widely tipped to win the election but got floored another former regional minister Ebenezer Kojo Tei Addo

The veteran politician and lawyer polled 299 votes to beat his closest contender Kakra Yalley who polled 256 votes.

Another contest which was expected to live up to the billing was the secretaryship race as the two front runners Henry Kweku Hayfron ,former Municipal Chief Executive for Mfantseman and ace journalist Kojo Quansah all polled 238 votes to tie .
The party is yet to fix another date to break the tie thereby electing one to head its Secretariat in the region .

In his valedictory speech the newly elected chairman Lawyer Ebenezer Tei Addo popularly known as E.K.T. Addo pledged to unite the rank and file of the party for another victory come 2020 .

He urged all party members to support the new executives to deliver on their vision of recapturing more seats in the parliamentary elections come 2020.

Before the 2016 elections, the NDC had 16 seats in the Region, while the New Patriotic Party (NPP) had 7, but the party could get only four seats out of the 23 during the 2016 elections, including losing its two traditional constituencies, Ekumfi and Twifo-Atemokwa.

Source:ghanaguaardian.com