Assin North Voters Have Saved Ghanaians, Showed Akufo-Addo That He Can’t Take Ghanaians For A Ride- Former Suhum MCE1 min read

Former Municipal Chief Executive for Suhum Constituency, Margaret Ansei aka Magoo has lauded the electorates of Assin North for rejecting the NPP in Tuesday’s by-election.

Margaret Ansei said the voters of Assin North have saved Ghanaians from economic hardship.

Speaking in an interview on the Ama Ghana Morning Show on Time FM, she said they have shown Akufo-Addo that he cannot take Ghanaians for a ride.

“If Gyakye Quason was in Parliament, there wouldn’t have been the passage of the e-levy bill and the three taxes imposed by the IMF,” she told the host Kwame Koranteng.

According to the former Suhum MCE, the victory is for Ghana and freedom fighters.

James Gyakye Quayson, the NDC parliamentary candidate for the Assin North by-election emerged victorious in Tuesday’s by-election.

At the end of the by-election on June 27, 2023, Mr. Quayson polled 17,245 votes representing 57.56 percent of the total votes cast to beat Charles Opoku of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), and Bernice Enyonam Sefenu of the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG).

Charles Opoku polled 12,630 votes representing 42.15 percent of the total votes cast in the hotly contested by-election while the LPG’s Bernice Enyonam Sefenu polled a paltry 87 votes (0.29%).