{"id":679131,"date":"2019-08-12T13:53:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T13:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>Rockson Adu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two leading contenders for the parliamentary primary of the\nruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Amasaman constituency of the Greater\nAccra Region, Clement Wilkinson and Rockson Adu Boahen, hav"},"modified":"2019-08-12T13:53:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T13:53:56","slug":"2-file-for-npp-primary-at-amasaman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/12\/2-file-for-npp-primary-at-amasaman\/","title":{"rendered":"2 File For NPP Primary At Amasaman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Rockson Adu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The two leading contenders for the parliamentary primary of the<br \/>\nruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Amasaman constituency of the Greater<br \/>\nAccra Region, Clement Wilkinson and Rockson Adu Boahen, have both filed their<br \/>\nnominations for the impending primary slated for next month.<\/p>\n<p>Clement Wilkinson who is currently the Municipal Chief Executive<br \/>\nof the Ga West Municipality contested the 2015 primary with Rockson Adu Boahen<br \/>\nand won to represent the party in the 2016. The two are going to meet again<br \/>\nalongside three other candidates making this year\u2019s primary very competitive.<\/p>\n<p>The two leading candidates both filed their nominations last<br \/>\nSaturday.<\/p>\n<p>After filing his nomination, Clement Wilkinson told journalists<br \/>\nthat he is very sure of winning the primary again to represent the party in the<br \/>\n2020 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, he has been the parliamentary candidate since<br \/>\n2012 and nearly won the seat for the NPP in the 2016 general elections losing<br \/>\nby less than 200 votes.<\/p>\n<p>He promised that he would win the seat when delegates place their<br \/>\ntrust in him adding that as an MCE he has already marketed himself sufficiently<br \/>\nto easily snatch the seat from the NDC<\/p>\n<p>Rockson Adu Boahen who works with the National Security said this<br \/>\ntime round it is his turn to represent the party and win the seat for the NPP.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, his contender has been given two opportunities<br \/>\nand he could not win the seat for the party meaning that the people of Amasaman<br \/>\ndo not like him.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that as an ordinary aspirant who is not in control of<br \/>\nthe resources of the municipality, he has been able to provide jobs for some of<br \/>\nthe youth in the constituency stressing that when voted as the parliamentary<br \/>\ncandidate and eventually the MP for the area, he is going to ensure that the<br \/>\nyouth of the area get jobs and the bad nature of road networks in the<br \/>\nconstituency are improved significantly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Thomas Fosu Jnr.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rockson Adu The two leading contenders for the parliamentary primary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Amasaman constituency of the Greater Accra Region, Clement Wilkinson and Rockson Adu Boahen, have both filed their nominations for the impending primary slated for next month. Clement Wilkinson who is currently the Municipal Chief Executive of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":679132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2 File For NPP Primary At Amasaman - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/12\/2-file-for-npp-primary-at-amasaman\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"2 File For NPP Primary At Amasaman - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Rockson Adu The two leading contenders for the parliamentary primary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Amasaman constituency of the Greater Accra Region, Clement Wilkinson and Rockson Adu Boahen, have both filed their nominations for the impending primary slated for next month. 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