A member of the National Democratic Congress Legal team, busily campaigning for the Party’s Parliamentary slot in the Bolgatanga Central Constituency, in the Upper East region, Abraham Amaliba, says, the Party will have to work extremely hard to retain the seat, if Member of Parliament, Opam Brown wins the November primaries.
According to him, his name, (Abraham Amaliba) rings a bell in government and as a result can attract more development projects to the Constituency than the Member of Parliament is doing now. Mr. Amaliba described the current Bolgatanga Central MP as unknown in the NDC, for which reason he is not able to lobby for projects from the various Ministries and organizations as expected of him.
Abraham Amaliba is of a strong view that, if Hon. Opam Brown wins the primaries, the entire NDC campaign machinery, including the President, will have to be brought to Bolgatanga Central to avoid what happened in Talensi and Nabdam, where John Akologo Tia and Moses Asaga were kicked out of Parliament.
Contrary to claims by many members of the NDC at the local level that, the New Patriotic Party’s Parliamentary Candidate for the same constituency, Rex Asanga, was no match for Hon. Opam Brown, Mr. Abraham Amaliba, acknowledged that, Mr. Asanga is a very formidable candidate who has attracted a lot of development projects to the Constituency even in his personal capacity.
Abraham Amaliba was speaking on A1 Radio in Bolgatanga, where he came face-to-face with the incumbent MP, Opam Brown and Isaac Adongo for a Radio debate. They were given the platform to tell the public how each of them intends to contribute to the development of the Bolgatanga Central constituency if anyone of them gets elected as the NDC Candidate for 2016, and later becomes the Member of Parliament for the constituency.
It looks like all the NDC contestants have equal chances, with the incumbent MP, Opam Brown, being a little ahead on the grounds of “the devil you know is better the angel you don’t know”.
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