BENSON ELECTED SISSALA WEST NPP CANDIDATE (PAGE 16)

Story: George Folley Quaye, Gwolu

THE Upper West Regional Minister, Mr George Hickah Benson, was at the weekend elected as the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for Sissala West, in this year’s elections.
He polled 37 votes to beat Mr Patrick Adamah, a United Kingdom-based mining engineer, who had 29 votes in the election held at Gwollu.
Mr Benson, who is contesting for the second time as the parliamentary candidate for the NPP, in a post-election speech, thanked the delegates for the honour done him.
He promised to work hard to win the seat, which is currently being held by the People’s National Convention (PNC), for the NPP.
“We must all put our shoulders to the wheel to enable us to capture the seat for our great party”, he added.
Conceding defeat, Mr Patrick Adamah gave the assurance that he would support Mr Benson in his bid to win the election.
He called for unity among the party members and urged them to avoid any act that would result in division within their ranks.
The Regional Chairman of the NPP, Alhaji Abubakar Short, called on supporters of both contestants to accept the primaries and forge ahead in unity.
“We must co-exist to defeat the PNC and the NDC in this constituency”, he said.
In another development, the Sissala East NPP has elected Mr Ahmed Issa, an engineer with the Volta River Authority (VRA), as its parliamentary candidate at a delegates conference held at Tumu.
He got 38 votes to beat the constituency secretary, Mr Amidu Chinnua Issahaku, who had 29 votes.
Mr Fuseini Limann placed third with five votes, while Mr Henry Bepua obtained two votes.
The elections were supervised by officials of the Electoral Commission (EC), led by the Regional Director, Mr Yahaya Mahama.