{"id":327675,"date":"2011-03-21T20:07:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T20:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/21\/frances-essiam-positive-about-winning-adenta-seat\/"},"modified":"2011-03-21T20:07:41","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T20:07:41","slug":"frances-essiam-positive-about-winning-adenta-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/21\/frances-essiam-positive-about-winning-adenta-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Frances Essiam Positive About Winning Adenta Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>New Patriotic Party firebrand, Frances Essiam, says she is upbeat about winning the Parliamentary primaries and by extension, the Adenta Constituency for her party come 2012.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, she turned down an offer to apply to be Executive Director of the African Women\u2019s Development Fund to enable her serve her constituency.<\/p>\n<p>Madam Frances Essiam told Citi News the NPP needs strong and experienced people like her at the forefront in its quest to wrestle power from the NDC. The ground is fertile to accept alternative policies under Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the NPP and I have to link my support organisationally and practically to that of the party at the local level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I look at Adenta, I believe our representation has not made any strong impact for the area. We have no lobbied and articulated enough to bring what Adenta deserves in terms of development in terms of water distribution, vocational facilities and so on\u201d. \u201cI have been offered the opportunity to apply for the Executive Director of the African Women\u2019s Development Fund in USA, a job specification that will allow me to base in Chicago \u2013Illinois, but I believe that this is the time my society demand of me\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The Adenta Constituency which was formed prior to the 2004 December elections after the division of the old Ashaiman constituency into the new Adenta and Ashaiman constituencies, was first occupied by the NPP\u2019s Kojo Opare-Hammond, who won by less than a thousand vote against the NDC\u2019s Kojo Adu Asare. Mr. Kojo Adu Asare turned the tables in 2008 and captured the seat for the NDC with almost four thousand votes higher.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/201ed65bget.media_1102-150x90.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> New Patriotic Party firebrand, Frances Essiam, says she is upbeat about winning the Parliamentary primaries and by extension, the Adenta Constituency for her party come 2012. 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