The government headed by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will use the government apparatus to ensure they win the Assin North seat in upcoming by-elections, according to George Krobea Asante, the NPP’s deputy director of communications.
Following the Supreme Court’s annulment of the 2020 parliamentary election results in that constituency, he predicted that the NPP would win the by-election in Assin North.
“NPP will use a different strategy to win the Assin North bye-elections, this strategy will be different from the Kumawu bye-elections. We are going to move the entire government machinery to Assin North constituency to win the elections,” Krobea Asante said on Accra-based Original FM.
“This seat is more of an NPP seat than an NDC. The NDC should get ready to face the government machinery in Assin North. In 2020 there was a split in terms of the NPP in this constituency. In 2016 the NPP won the seat with 15553 votes and NDC 10751, a margin of victory for the NPP was 4802.”
The Supreme Court unanimously decided to order Parliament to remove James Gyakye Quayson’s name from the rolls of parliamentarians.
Gyakye Quayson was elected as the MP for Assin North on Wednesday, May 17, 2023, but the court ruled that it was unconstitutional because he had dual citizenship at the time he filed to run in the 2020 elections.
Michael Ankomah Nimfa, a resident of Assin Bereku in the Central region, brought Quayson before the court to prevent him from holding himself out as an MP after the Cape Coast High Court invalidated his election as the MP for Assin North in July 2021.
Relatively, the Assin North seat has been formally declared vacant by the Ghanaian Parliament.
The Clerk of Parliament announced this in accordance with the Supreme Court’s decision regarding James Quayson’s eligibility to serve as the district’s member of parliament.
