* Boniface, Bawa Caught …As They Set To Contest For Adenta Madina Seats
The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) is having serious time ticks toward the 2016 elections.
The greatest problem the party is facing is on the Parliamentary elections and how it can make strides by winning more seats come 2016.
As part of the game plan, the party is forcing some persons to desert their mother constituencies and switch camp at cosmopolitan areas to try their luck.
Alhaji Abu-Bakar Sadique Boniface and Rashid Bawa are two of such persons the NPP is forcing to contest in 2016.
Boniface is ruling from his home constituency which is Salaga in the Northern Region, while Rashid Bawa is packing bag and baggage from the Akan Constituency in the Volta Region.
Boniface, the former Member of Parliament for Salaga, who was humiliated during the 2008 Parliamentary elections, is lacing his boot to contest for the Madina seat in the Greater Accra Region, while Rashid Bawa wants to become the Member of Parliament for the Adenta Constituency, also in the Greater Accra Region.
There are unconfirmed reports that the two have stated undertaking some not-all-that-important projects in their interested areas to catch the attention of the electorate.
Rashid Bawa contested for the Akan Constituency seat as an independent candidate in 2008 and won.
He served as Minister of Youth and Sports in their erstwhile Kufuor administration.
Boniface also served in various ministerial positions under the Kufuor regime.
Interesting, both Rashid Bawa and Boniface were named in both 2008 and 2012 likely running mate for Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, but that did materialize.
The Enquirer gathered from flawless sources within the NPP that the party was considering the moves because it has dawned on it that some of the seats were just unwinnable.
The NPP sources told The Enquirer that allowing some people to contest outside their mother constituencies, especially in cosmopolitan areas, was likely to yield some good results.
Boniface is likely to face a very tall order, as Honorable Amadu Sorogho, the current MP for Madina, is the darling boy of the electorate.
Rashid Bawa, on the other hand, will struggle to win the Adenta seat, as Honorable Nii Ashie Moore is making gains for the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC).
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