A former District Chief Executive for the Effutu-Awutu-Senya District, Lt Daniel William Osardu, who is also a former vice chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Awutu-Senya West constituency, has promised to oust the incumbent MP for the area, Hannah Tetteh, in the forthcoming parliamentary primary of the party.
�I am commonly known as �Mr Technical� because of my organisational ability from my military background and I promise to do an effective campaign to beat Hannah Tetteh on November 7 because she has neglected the grassroots of the party in Awutu-Senya and has also been an absentee MP,� Lt Osardu said after picking his nomination forms to contest the Awutu-Senya West parliamentary primary at the party�s office at Awutu Bereku.
He was accompanied to the party office by enthusiastic party supporters who were all calling for a change of candidate.
Lt Osardu said the expansion of the electoral college is a welcome development because it will surely reduce vote-buying during the primary.
According to him, during the last primary of the party in 2011, sewing machines and hair dryers were distributed to about 900 delegates to influence them.
�I hope the constituency executive members are going to be neutral and provide a level playing field this time round�,� he added, warning that any attempt to �bend� the rules in favour of the incumbent would be fiercely resisted.
�Before I came to pick my forms, some of our people were saying that I don�t have money to even pick the forms and now I have paid about GH�2,000 to pick my forms for the primary,� he told the teeming supporters.
He added that he was the man to represent the grassroots as well as the youth in the constituency, adding, �I am prepared to provide effective leadership for the party in the constituency come 2016 as I did during my days as the DCE for the area.�
The NDC in the Central Region has been charged to collect an additional GH�900 from all aspirants for administrative purposes as well as to pay for the biometric registration of the delegates.
One other aspirant, Papa Agyarko-Owiredu, has also picked his nomination forms to contest in the Awutu-Senya West primary of the party.
Source: Daily Guide
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