A Vice President of Imani Africa, Mr Bright Simons has said that the results from the Assin North by-election which took place on Tuesday, June 27 and was won by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) as well as the Kuamwu by-election won by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) show that the opposition NDC is maintaining its level of support from 2020 whereas disgruntled supporters of the incumbent NPP are mostly staying home.
He also indicated that the NDC has yet to excite non-NDC voters whereas NPP has more to fear in 2024.
“What the 2 recent parliamentary by-elections in Ghana show is that: 1/ The Opposition NDC is maintaining its level of support from 2020 2/ Disgruntled supporters of the incumbent NPP are mostly staying home 3/ NDC has yet to excite non-NDC voters 4/ NPP has more to fear in 2024,” Bright Simons tweeted.
What the 2 recent parliamentary by-elections in Ghana show is that:
1/ The Opposition NDC is maintaining its level of support from 2020
2/ Disgruntled supporters of the incumbent NPP are mostly staying home
3/ NDC has yet to excite non-NDC voters
4/ NPP has more to fear in 2024— Bright Simons (@BBSimons) June 27, 2023
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo commended the Electoral Commission (EC) for a successful by-election in Assin North.
In a statement, he said that Ghana’s democratic credentials were strengthened even further following the conduct of peaceful and credible elections in the Assin North by-election.
“I congratulate warmly the Chairperson and Members of the Electoral Commission, again, for a job well-done. The security services are to be commended for maintaining law and order during the holding of the elections; as is the media for providing extensive coverage before, during and after the elections.
“I congratulate the National Democratic Congress on its victory yesterday. I urge members of my party, the New Patriotic Party, to keep their heads up, recognizing that, in a democracy, there are winners and losers, and that we live to fight another day. We once held the Assin North seat, and I am confident that, sooner rather than later, Assin North will be blue again.”
During the by-election, Mr Gyakye Quayson beat Charles Opoku of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and Bernice Enyonam Sefenu of the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG) to reclaim the seat in the Tuesday, June 27 by-election.
His votes margin as compared to the 2020 results is over 1,300. In that election, Mr Gyakye Quayson polled 17,498 votes to beat NPP’s Abena Durowaa Mensah, who polled 14,193.
Mr Gyakye Quayson, who was declared invalidly elected in 2020 by a Supreme Court judgement, will return to take his seat in Parliament.