{"id":267191,"date":"2024-12-18T03:53:37","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T03:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/18\/npp-couldve-won-assin-central-if-kennedy-was-involved\/"},"modified":"2024-12-18T03:53:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T03:53:37","slug":"npp-couldve-won-assin-central-if-kennedy-was-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/18\/npp-couldve-won-assin-central-if-kennedy-was-involved\/","title":{"rendered":"NPP could\u2019ve won Assin Central if Kennedy was involved"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Outgoing Outgoing MP for Assin Central, Ken Agyapong<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Member of Parliament for Cape Coast South, Kweku George Ricketts-Hagan, has suggested that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) could have won the Assin Central seat in the 2024 elections if the incumbent MP, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, had been more involved in the campaign.<\/p>\n

Ricketts-Hagan\u2019s comments come after the National Democratic Congress (NDC) secured a historic victory in Assin Central, a seat traditionally held by the NPP.<\/p>\n

Nurein Shiabu Migyimah of the NDC won the seat with 16,343 votes (50.6%), narrowly defeating the NPP\u2019s candidate, Godfred Anewu, who received 15,926 votes (49.4%).<\/p>\n

Speaking on State of Affairs on\u00a0GHOne TV, Ricketts-Hagan believes that Ohene Agyapong\u2019s involvement would have made a significant difference in the outcome.<\/p>\n

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\nHe noted that Ohene Agyapong\u2019s national campaign for the presidency distracted him from focusing on his constituency, ultimately affecting the NPP\u2019s chances of retaining the seat.<\/p>\n

According to him, Ohene Agyapong\u2019s popularity and influence in the constituency were crucial factors in the NPP\u2019s previous successes, and his absence from the campaign trail proved costly for the party.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cBecause of the opportunity I had to serve under John Mahama as the Central Regional Minister, I became so much involved in the detailed voting analysis of the central region, especially in the 2016 election. I\u2019ve always had the belief that if we didn\u2019t have Kennedy Agyapong, that seat could be taken if we didn\u2019t have his backing. You realised that he went for president, and it wasn\u2019t successful; he enjoyed more of a national campaign in a lukewarm kind of way, but he didn\u2019t pay much attention to his constituency by backing the NPP candidate to the hills. If he has done so, which means he was 100% into that candidate, probably that could have made a difference; people felt Kennedy was gone.\u201d<\/p>\n

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