NPP Constituency Primaries: Ama Sey's Resolve To Recapture Akwatia Seat For NPP Suffers First Setback As She Loses Primaries
This follows the massive defeat suffered by Ama Sey at her first setback at the just ended NPP orphan constituencies election which was held on Saturday December 2, 2023.
Freeman Koryekpor 
THE MISSION by a former New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP for Akwatia in the Eastern Region, Mercy Adu Gyamfi, popularly known as Ama Sey to reclaim the seat for the party in the 2024 general elections has failed.
This follows the massive defeat suffered by Ama Sey at her first setback at the just ended NPP orphan constituencies election which was held on Saturday December 2, 2023.
Mr Ernest Yaw Kumi Secures Second Victory Over Ama Sey in Akwatia as the delegates have voted for him to represent the New Patriotic Party in the 2024 elections.
Mr Kumi who lost the 2020 elections as a Parliamentary candidate is said to have garnered 330 votes while his closest contender Madam Mercy Adu-Gyamfi garnered 268 votes.
Ernest Yaw Kumi will battle the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for Akwatia Constituency, Honourable Henry Yiadom Boakye in the 2023 election.
Meanwhile, there are calls for Ama Sey to contest as an independent candidate because the political party in the constituency hasn’t been fair to her.
Ama Sey was elected MP on the NPP ticket in the 2016 general election and served as a member of the seventh Parliament. However, she lost in her re-election bid during the party's parliamentary primary to Ernest Kumi, who eventually lost the seat to the NDC in the 2020 election.
The Akwatia parliamentary seat is currently held by the NDC, with Henry Yiadom Boakye as the MP, who secured victory in the 2020 general election by defeating Ernest Kumi of the NPP.
Mr. Boakye won with 19,899 votes, representing 51.5 per cent, against Mr. Kumi's 18,742 votes, representing 48.5 per cent, thereby joining the eighth Parliament of the Fourth Republic.
Delegates of the NPP voted on Saturday in the orphan constituencies to elect their parliamentary candidates.
The election forms part of the party‘s preparation ahead of the 2024 general elections.
Orphan constituencies are areas where the NPP has no sitting MPs. In other words, constituencies whose MPs are from the National Democratic Congress or independent candidates.
