Arthur-Dadzie to contest Cape Coast South seat

Cape Coast, April 14, GNA - Mr. Michael Arthur-Dadzie, a legal practitioner, has picked nomination forms to contest the upcoming parliamentary primaries of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Cape Coast South Constituency.

In 2011, the 51-year-old lawyer contested the primaries with four others, including Mr. Alfred George Thompson, a former banker, who won the slot but could not win the seat for the party.

This time round, Mr. Arthur-Dadzie will be battling it out with Mr. Thompson and Mr. Perry Mensah, Executive Director of IBB Computer Training Centre in Cape Coast, as the two have also picked their nomination forms.

Whoever wins the primaries will be locking horns with Mr. Kweku Rickett Hagan, the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) from the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), if only he contests and wins his party's primaries.

Picking the nomination form at the party's office over the weekend, Mr. Arthur-Dadzie who wore a grey suit over purple shirt, also had hanging over his shoulder, a blue-black and white African print with the inscription 'I depend on God' embossed in it.

He was accompanied by a crowd of supporters, who after picking the forms, joined him in a procession from the party's office near the Mfantsipim School Junction, through the Aboom Wells Street to his legal chambers, a few metres away, amidst jubilation.

In an interview with the Ghana News Agency , Mr. Arthur-Dadzie said his decision to contest was motivated by his desire to contribute his quota to the development of the metropolis in which he was born, bred and had lived almost all his life.

He said since he became a member of the party in 1992, he had served in various capacities, including being the Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly's solicitor in the Kufuor administration during which he helped the assembly to win several legal suits.

GNA