- “I know this decision will receive various reactions from people, particularly my friends and loved ones, but my decision has been made upon sober and deep reflection."
The Fomena Constituency chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Akwasi Nti Asamoah, has resigned from office, citing health reasons as grounds for his decision.
According to his resignation letter addressed to the Ashanti Region chairman of the NPP and copied to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, the National Chairman of the NPP, Freddie Blay, the General Secretary, John Boadu and the Council of Elders of the Fomena Constituency, Asamoah said his resignation is informed by the advice given to him by his doctors to take a bow from active party politics.
“I know this decision will receive various reactions from people, particularly my friends and loved ones, but my decision has been made upon sober and deep reflection,” Asamoah stated in his resignation letter.
Internal wrangling
Asamoah in the lead-up to the 7 December 2020 elections was accused by NPP supporters in the Fomena Constituency and the MP for the Constituency, Andrew Amoako Asiamah, of being power drunk and fomenting trouble in the constituency.
Asiamah, following the protracted disagreement with the Fomena Constituency chairman and other NPP constituency executives in Fomena, did not re-contest the party’s primary to select a candidate for the 2020 election.
He, however, decided to contest the seat as an independent candidate. The decision moved the leadership of the NPP from Accra to Fomena including president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to appeal to him to rescind his decision so that the NPP’s selected candidate, Philip Ofori-Asante, could contest the election unchallenged. However, the intervention of the party leader did not stop Asiamah from contesting the Fomena seat in Election 2020.
Asiamah won the polls by 12,805 votes, defeating the NPP candidate Ofori-Asante, who polled 10,798 of the valid votes cast.
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