Andrew Amoako Asiamah, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Fomena in the Ashanti Region who was sacked by the party for vying as an independent candidate in the 2020 presidential and parliamentary election, has been elected as the constituency member of parliament.
Mr Asiamah who was disqualified from contesting the party’s parliamentary primaries and had his seat declared in Parliament as vacant, went against the NPP’s laid down regulations and declared his intention to contest as an independent candidate.
At the end of the Monday, December 7, 2020 polls, Mr Asiamah got 12, 805 of the total votes casted in the constituency to beat other candidates who contested on the ticket of the main opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and other parties.
Philip Ofori Asante who subsequently replaced Mr Asiamah as the Parliamentary candidate for the NPP got 10,798 while Christiana Appiagyei of the NDC polled 2,608 votes.
The other contestant in the race, Eric Appiagyei of the Ghana Union Movement (GUM) had 158 votes.
The EC officials in the constituency announced that the results showed that the total number of votes was 26,637 out of which 247 were rejected.
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