The ruling New Patriotic Party as part of efforts to reorganize the base of the party began the election of new officers beginning from the polling station level few weeks ago.
Yesterday, 29th April 2022 was the turn of the constituency, to elect leaders into various executive positions to run the affairs of the party for the next four years.
The exercise was carried out across 14 constituencies in the region except the Navrongo Central constituency whose elections was suspended indefinitely due to a court injunction placed on the process by some aggrieved persons of the party.
However, the elections in the Bolgatanga East constituency were able to come on without any challenge as delegates from the various polling stations and electoral areas trouped to the Zuarungu Catholic Social Center to exercise their franchise.
The delegates were made up of polling station executives, electoral area coordinators, and senior party members totaling about 254 eligible voters.
After hours of election and collation of electoral results the following people passed the litmus test of delegates to become executives:
For the position of NASARA COORDINATOR, BUKHARI MORO BLESSING emerged victorious with 124 votes out of 254 votes leaving the rest of the votes to his other two contenders to share.
YOUTH ORGANIZER’s position was a neck-to-neck contest but Agana Adekurah Desmond polled 89 votes to win the position against his closestcontender, Ahmed Agergre who pulled 81 votes.
STEPHEN ADUKU and EVELYN ABINGDE won the constituency ORGANIZER and WOMEN ORGANIZER positions, with 147 votes and 144 votes respectively.
For the position of TREASURER, ATAMPUSA GODWIN pulled 150 votes to secure the position.
BISMARK AKOLOGO and ABALIMA SUNDAY obtained 103 votes and 140 votes to emerge as SECRETARY and ASSISTANT SECRETARY respectively.
ATAKEMA CLEMENT won the SECOND VICE CHAIRMAN after polling 154 votes.
Teacher AGANA AKUGRE ALBERT received an overwhelming 234 votes to become the FIRST VICE CHAIRMAN.
KARIM ANAABILA beat DESMOND ATIA with 142 votes as against 83 votes to win the CHAIRMAN position and the leader of the party in the constituency.
The new Chairman was the acting constituency chairman after the then Chairman, Hon. DAVID AMOAH AKOLGO was appointed District Chief Executive for Bolgatanga East District.
The NPP have tried in vain to win the Bolga-East constituency parliamentary seat since its creation in 2012.
The National Democratic Congress,NDC seem to have a firm grip on the parliamentary seat, but the newly elected NPP, Chairman believes with unity in the NPP they are capable of snatching the seat from the NDC in the 2024 polls.
By:Adekurah Wisdom/mywordfmonline.com.