{"id":262522,"date":"2024-12-07T20:41:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T20:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/07\/who-succeeds-osei-kyei-mensah-bonsu-in-suame-constituency\/"},"modified":"2024-12-07T20:41:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T20:41:43","slug":"who-succeeds-osei-kyei-mensah-bonsu-in-suame-constituency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/07\/who-succeeds-osei-kyei-mensah-bonsu-in-suame-constituency\/","title":{"rendered":"Who succeeds Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu in Suame Constituency?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/376\/37639873.295.jpg\" alt=\"Honourable Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu\" title=\"Honourable Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu\" width=\"295\" height=\"236\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Honourable Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p id=\"article-123\">Member of Parliament for Suame Constituency, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, will retire at the end of the present Parliament in January 2025, leaving his seat in the Ashanti Region open for new parliamentary candidates.<\/p>\n<p>John Darko, a Board Member of Ghana Gas Company and a private legal practitioner, emerged as the new candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the primaries after beating his closest contender, Maxwell Osei Boakye, in the January 2024 primaries.<\/p>\n<p>John Darko is contesting against Frank Owusu Ansah of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and Mohammed Mubarak of the All Peoples Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p>Counting and sorting are currently underway in Suame Constituency after polls officially closed at 5:00 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Suame constituents will be electing a new MP for the first time in 28 years after Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu entered chamber in the second Parliament of the Fourth Republic and has maintained his seat since January 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu is Ghana&#8217;s longest-serving lawmaker, representing his constituency in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th Parliaments.<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 general elections took place across 276 constituencies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honourable Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu Member of Parliament for Suame Constituency, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, will retire at the end of the present Parliament in January 2025, leaving his seat in the Ashanti Region open for new parliamentary candidates. John Darko, a Board Member of Ghana Gas Company and a private legal practitioner, emerged as the new candidate for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":248219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Who succeeds Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu in Suame Constituency? - 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\/2024\/12\/07\/who-succeeds-osei-kyei-mensah-bonsu-in-suame-constituency\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Who succeeds Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu in Suame Constituency? - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Honourable Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu Member of Parliament for Suame Constituency, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, will retire at the end of the present Parliament in January 2025, leaving his seat in the Ashanti Region open for new parliamentary candidates. 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