NDC MP FOR HO EAST RE-ELECTED (PAGE 17)

Story: Tim Dzamboe, Adaklu-Helekpe

THE incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ho East Constituency, Mrs Jualiana Azumah-Mensah, has been elected by popular acclamation to contest the parliamentary seat on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
According to the Adaklu-Anyigbe District Electoral Officer, Mr Francis Paine, she was the only candidate who filed nominations at the end of the period, and therefore declared her winner after the delegates had acclaimed her as their choice.
In a post-election speech, Mrs Azumah-Mensah thanked constituency executives and delegates for the confidence reposed in her to represent them in parliament for the second time.
She said the next term in Parliament would be easier for her and the electorate because she was optimistic that the NDC would be elected into government.
The MP assured them that every person who sacrificed towards the cause of the party would be duly recognised when Professor John Mills became the next president.
She advised them against getting hoodwinked by people who hid behind other colours to tell them that the NDC was dead, adding that they must educate their people against the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and resist the temptation to use their voter identity cards as collateral for non-existent loans.
She said although the end of their suffering was near because victory was on the doorstep, it would not come easily if they did not encourage eligible voters to register when the register was opened.
In an address the Regional Chairman of the party, Mr Modestus Ahiable, took a swipe at the NPP for consuming the national cake, saying that it was an abomination for the NPP government to claim that nothing good had happened under the NDC.
He said the future would be brighter than the past because the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) would be streamlined to remove all defects.
In an address, the constituency chairman, Mr M.K. Adzaho, commended the parliamentary nominee for her victory in addition to her “hard work, open and equitable distribution of her common fund in the constituency”
He appealed to the national executive committee through the regional chairman for a pick-up, motorbikes and bicycles in order to reach out to more people.