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15.09.2011 NDC

Evans Amankwah To Contest Adansi Asokwa NDC Primary

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By Joseph Kyei-Boateng - Daily Graphic

A Kumasi-based businessman and 2004 parliamentary candidate, Mr Evans Amankwah, has filed his nomination to contest the upcoming parliamentary primary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Adansi Asokwa Constituency of the Ashanti Region.

He is the second to pick nomination forms, after the Adansi North District Chief Executive (DCE), Alhaji Latif Madjoeb, who picked his forms on August 19, this year — three days after nominations were opened — in his quest to secure the mandate of the delegates at the constituency level.

Either of them, if endorsed, will face long-time rival, Mr K. T. Hammond, the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

Mr Amankwah, 39, made history when he submitted his nomination forms in the presence of the party executives and his followers, on the same day that he picked the forms.

Before a well-attended rally in the Asokwa community, the Adansi Asokwa Constituency Secretary of the NDC, Ohene Amoah-Mensah, confirmed the official candidature of the duo to the Daily Graphic.

He was hopeful that by the close of October this year when the primary might have ended, the constituency would come out with a candidate for the party to wrest power from the NPP.

Mr Amankwah, who spoke to the Daily Graphic in an interview, stated that if endorsed by the delegates, he would strengthen the better Ghana agenda of President John E. A. Mills.

According to him, it was time for him to actualise his long-term plans to reshape education in the area, since for 11 years, the sitting MP had failed to develop senior high schools (SHSs) in the constituency.

He said if the mandate, he would see to it that the farmers in the area were well catered for, especially making them beneficiaries of the Micro Finance and Small Loans Scheme (MASLOC).

Mr Amankwah, who has just completed the Ghana School of Law (GSL), further said he had come up with a personal proposal to establish a brewery, a sawmill and agrochemical factories for the people of the area.

He observed that after touring all the 67 polling stations in the constituency, he remained a very formidable, affable and well-composed candidate to battle with the sitting MP.

He revealed that he had personally built a toilet for the people of Adansi Anwiaso, where he hailed from.

Moreover, he built a bridge for the Obemo community in 2004 from his personal resources and had financially supported football associations and churches in the area.

Married with two children, Mr Amankwah was the campaign manager for the NDC in the constituency in 1996.

He holds a Master of Law (LLM) degree from the University of London, a Bachelor of Law (LLB) degree from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and a Barrister at Law (BL) degree from the GSL.

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