The embattled Member of Parliament (MP) for the Fomena Constituency, Lawyer Andrew Amoako Asiamah, has, for the first time since news about his intention to contest as an independent candidate went viral, broken his silence with an emphatic statement that he was going to win the Fomena seat.
“The whole of the constituency is behind me. I have overwhelming support from all the towns in the constituency, and for that matter I am going to win convincingly,” Lawyer Amoako Asiamah stated at a mini rally at Dompoase last Saturday.
His statement came shortly after he led about 4,000 youth in a float from Dompoase to Fomena and Kusa to herald the rally.
He stated clearly that his decision to abandon the constituency’s primary to contest as independent was a way to liberate the constituency from the captivity of Chairman Kwasi Nti.
“After this election Fomena will never be the same again. Fact is, we want to change the narrative of Fomena NPP, and change for the better,” he said.
Amoako Asiamah recounted how the constituency’s polling station album issue, which was the genesis of all the trouble between him and the Chairman, went from the courts, then to the national as well as the regional offices of the party, and added that when at long last everything was skewed to favour Mr. Philip Ofori Asante, the parliamentary candidate, he did what he considered to be needful.
The MP said he was not perturbed by moves by the leadership of NPP to deny him the membership of the party. According to him, his blood, as well as his DNA, is NPP, and that all that he and his supporters are doing is an attempt to correct the wrongs in the Fomena Constituency, where all the powers are vested in only one person.
He charged his supporters to exercise the greatest restraint in the face of provocations so as to ensure peaceful elections.
On his part, Mr. Seth Oduro, Spokesperson for Mr Amoako Asiamah, said the MP is the NPP MP in the 7th Parliament of the 4th Republic, and that he had not crossed any carpet with regards to the 7th Parliament.
He maintained that Mr. Amoako Asiamah will be an independent MP in the 8th Parliament of the 4th Republic when he wins the impending elections, and for that matter the call for his removal from Parliament, as announced by the NPP General Secretary, Mr. John Boadu, is neither here nor there.
From Frederick Danso Abeam, Dompoase
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