Damongo: Abu Jinapor unseats NDC MP Mutawakilu
Samuel Abu Jinapor, a Deputy Chief of Staff at the Presidency, has won the Damongo Constituency seat after beating NDC MP, Adam Mutawakilu
Samuel Abu Jinapor, a Deputy Chief of Staff at the Office of the President, has won the Damongo Constituency seat in the Savannah Region, after beating incumbent NDC MP, Adam Mutawakilu.
He polled 15,671 votes to defeat Mutawakilu who had 13,330 votes. Independent candidate David Dange polled 296 votes.
In all a total of 29,150 valid votes were cast in the Parliamentary election with 499 rejected ballots.
However, in the Presidential race, John Mahama of the NDC garnered 16,231 votes as compared to the 12,264 votes by President Akufo-Addo.
Flagberaer of the Ghana Union Movement, Christian Kwabena Andrews, polled 62 votes while the Convention People’s Party’s Ivor Kobina Greenstreet polling 27 votes.
About Jinapor
Samuel Jinapor was born in 1983 to Abudulai Jinapor, a former police officer and Chief of Buipe in the Northern Region of Ghana. He attended the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in physics in 2006.
He proceeded to the University of Ghana in 2008 where he earned a Bachelor of Laws in 2010.
That same year, he was admitted to read LLB at Ghana School of Law, Makola, Accra. He was called to the Ghana Bar in 2012 as a Solicitor and Barrister of the Supreme Court of Ghana.
He also holds a Master of Laws in Alternative Dispute Resolution from the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana.
Abu Jinapor was employed in 2012 at the commercial and corporate law firm, Kulendi@Law, upon his graduation for the Ghana School of Law.
His two years at the firm saw him rise from a pupil to senior associate. When Akufo-Addo came to power, Jinapor was appointed a deputy Chief of Staff to Frema Opare.
At the time of his appointment, he was 33 years old. His appointment received mixed reaction from New Patriotic Party members and the Ghanaian populace.
Some believed he was too young to hold such a sensitive position while others also held the view that he abandoned the party after it lost the 2012 Ghanaian general election.
Fred Dzakpata
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