Though he retained his seat, Mr Afotey-Agbo revealed on Onua FM’s Election Analysis segment hosted by Michael Nana Opare that despite the numerous development projects he undertook in the capital, some stalwarts in the party still sponsored people in a bid to unseat him during their primary. 

“If they had succeeded in unseating me at the primary last year, NDC wouldn’t have won the constituency in 2016 as I have won for the party,” he analysed.

According to the Regional Minister, he has been a very tough candidate for the National Democratic Congress and that has contributed to being able to retain the Kpone-Katamanso seat. 

Expressing his worry and disappointment at the way most of the sitting MPs lost in the 2016 parliamentary elections, he concluded that some did not listen to his advice, especially those in the Greater Accra region whom he had the opportunity to talk to. 

Joseph Nii Laryea Afotey-Agbo who won with a margin of more than 3,000 votes against his opponent in the 2016 parliamentary election, attributed his victory to hard work and associating himself with the grassroots of the party. 

He asserted that Amadu Sorogho and Nii Amasah Namoale, MPs for Madina and Dadekotopong respectively lost because they failed to touch base with their constituents, which made them unpopular. 

Afotey-Agbo won the 2016 parliamentary elections at Kpone Katamanso with 30,541 votes representing 51% of the total votes cast as against 27,001 representing 45% of his main opponent Solomon Tettey Appiah of the NPP. 

He has pledged to continually work for the party, region and the nation at large. 

He stressed that all that is needed in the country is development and progress that every Ghanaian will directly or indirectly benefit from.

Foreign Affairs Minister and incumbent Member of Parliament for Awutu Senya West Constituency, Hannah Serwaa Tetteh, was kicked out of her her comfi seat by George Nenyi Andah of the NPP, after she polled 25,664 representing 49 per cents of the total valid votes with her opponent having 28,867 representing 62.72 per cent.
If NDC is out of power, as it is predicted at the moment, she will be jobless at all, very soon.

Murtala Muhammed Ibrahim, Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry lost his Nanton Constituency seat in the Northern Region to NPP’s Mohammed Hardi Tuferu.
At La Dadekotopon Constituency, Nii Amasah Namoale lost to Vincent Sowah Odotei.

Incumbent MP for Madina Constituency, Alhaji Amadu Sorogho who lost to NPP’s Boniface Abubakar Saddique.

These are the sitting MPs who will not be part of the next Ghana parliament: 

1. Awutu Senya West - Hannah Serwaa Tetteh
   
2. Madina - Amadu Bukari Sorogho
   
3. Ledzokuku - Benita Sena Okity-duah
   
4. La Dadekotpon - Nii Amasah Namoale
   
5. Nanton - Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed
   

Source: starrfmonline. com - The flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Akufo-Addo is in a pole position to be Ghana’s next president, according to results gathered by EIB's Election Hub.

The 72-year-old has so far garnered 4,612,870 votes representing 54.13% from 214 out of the 275 constituencies.

Incumbent John Mahama is likely to go down in history as the first sitting president to have lost an election under the Fourth Republic of the 1992 constitution. Mahama, who led the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) to power in 2012 has about 3,765,537 representing 44.8% of the total votes from 214 constituencies, making it statistically difficult to obtain the required 50% plus 1 mark.

The Electoral Commission is expected to declare its official results on Friday.

The opposition NPP had already declared victory in the 2016 elections, but the ruling NDC has served notice its candidate “is cruising to victory” with the country’s Peace Council calling on the Electoral Management Body to “expedite the process” in declaring results to calm nerves.

The NPP has so far grabbed 111 seats in Parliament with the NDC at 59 from the results obtained so far.

An Akufo-Addo win in the 2016 elections will be vengeance for the NPP after Mahama beat him to the presidency following an eight-month legal tussle.

Akufo-Addo is a former Attorney General and Foreign Affairs Minister under the erstwhile Kufuor administration and has been eyeing the presidency since 2008. Late president John Mills beat him in that year’s election after a run off and resurfaced again in 2012 to be defeated by incumbent Mahama.

His vice president will be economist Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, who was a former deputy governor of the Bank of Ghana.

We urge all stakeholders to respect the will of the people and concede to the winner to sustain our international democratic reputation and more importantly, guarantee the security and safety of our country and its people.

We congratulate the PPP, its supporters and sympathizers for campaigning and voting for the Progressive People’s Party and its Presidential Candidate, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom. This is a democracy and the people of Ghana have spoken.

We must all now work hard to make our country great and strong again.

Murtala Mohammed National Secretary

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The two leading parties, National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the NPP have declared themselves winners of the 2016 elections although results are still trickling in from across the 275 Constituencies.

However, the EC Chair, Charlotte Osei, says the Commission will not be compelled to declare results of the Wednesday elections when the laid down procedures have not been exhausted.

According to NPP's Director of IT, Joe Anokye, the collation was a methodology set up by the party for calculating results of this year's election.

Addressing how the figures were acquired, Mr Anokye revealed that the 28992 party agents in various constituencies across the country sent pictures of pink sheet results after the ballots have been counted to help in adding up the figures. 

The results generated so far showed that the flagbearer of the party, Akufo-Addo was leading by 53.51% as against President Mahama's 44.93%.

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