{"id":144392,"date":"2024-01-27T23:09:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T23:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/27\/npp-primaries-obour-loses-again\/"},"modified":"2024-01-27T23:09:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T23:09:46","slug":"npp-primaries-obour-loses-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/27\/npp-primaries-obour-loses-again\/","title":{"rendered":"NPP primaries: Obour loses again"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Managing Director of the Ghana Post Company Limited, Bice Osei Kuffour Obour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

The Managing Director of Ghana Post, \u00a0Bice Osei-Kuffuor\u00a0has\u00a0once again been defeated by incumbent Member of Parliament for Asante Akyem South, Kwaku Asante-Boateng in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary primaries. <\/p>\n

Obour as he is popularly lost in his quest to represent the people in Parliament after failing in June 2020.<\/p>\n

The former President of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) garnered only 280 of the votes representing 32.86% of the votes cast while Mr Boateng won with 522 votes, representing 61.27% of the votes cast.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the third candidate got only 59 votes, representing 5.87% of the votes.<\/p>\n

This is Obour\u2019s second time losing the NPP primaries.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Managing Director for the Ghana Post Company Limited first contested against the incumbent MP in the 2020 NPP parliamentary primaries.<\/p>\n

At the time, he lost with 296 votes \u2013 16 more votes than the total he gained this year.<\/p>\n

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