President Akufo-Addo has urged members of the New Patriotic Party to keep their heads up as in elections there will surely be winners and losers.
He said this to comfort them regarding Tuesday’s by-election at the Assin North Constituency which unfortunately did not go in their favour.
Whiles congratulating the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for winning the seat, President Akufo-Addo implored his Party to recognise that, “in a democracy, there are winners and losers, and that we live to fight another day.”
“I urge members of my party, the New Patriotic Party, to keep their heads up, recognising that, in a democracy, there are winners and losers, and that we live to fight another day.
The NPP which once held the Assin North seat, President Akufo-Addo was confident and upbeat that, sooner rather than later, “Assin North will be blue again.”
The President who took to his Facebook page, Wednesday said “Yesterday, Tuesday, 27th June 2023, 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’ he stated.
The security services, President Akufo-Addo indicated, need 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.”
James Gyakye Quayson, the parliamentary candidate of the National Democratic Congress, retained the Assin North seat for the NDC.
He garnered 17,245 votes (57.56%) to beat his main rival, Charles Opoku of the NPP who had 12,630 (42.15%) of the total votes cast while the candidate of the Liberal Party of Ghana ( LPG), Bernice Enyonam Sefenu won 87 votes, representing 0.29% of the total cast.
The total valid votes cast were 29,962 and the total number of votes cast was 30,418. Rejected ballots were 456 and the turnout was 74.23%. The constituency has 40,978 registered voters.