Madina will reject Sorogho - Abubakar Siddique

The third term of Member of Parliament (MP) for Madina Constituency, Alhaji Amadu Sorogho, may just come to an end come November 7 this year, as his major contender on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Boniface Abubakar Siddique, has vowed to wrest the Madina seat from the Chairman of Parliamentary Select Committee on Mines and Energy.

Alhaji Boniface, former MP and Works & Housing minister in ex-President John Kufuour’s administration, won the NPP Madina Constituency parliamentary primaries held on June 13, 2015 with 426 out of 748 votes over five other contestants. He declared his ‘Rescue Madina’ mission immediately after his victory, and has since never rested on his oars.

Speaking in a telephone interview with Bright Kwesi Asempa, host of Ghana Dadwen on Onua FMWednesday, Mr Boniface disclosed that he would beat the incumbent MP for the area with 12,000 votes during the November 7 polls.

Justifying his ambitious target, the former Works & Housing minister said he lived his entire life in the Madina Constituency and knows the needs of the constituents, adding that “I want to redeem Madina; they know I can do it. My works as a minister will speak for me and I will remove Sorogho with 12,000 vote difference. I lived there for almost 40 years so Sorogho can’t say he is a Zongo man.”

Also on the same programme was the NPP Chairman of Madina Constituency, Michael Makenzi, who hinted that the 2016 elections will see change in Madina.

He mentioned that the most touted water project at the Adenta was started by Boniface Abubakar and, therefore, finds it comical when the NDC and Alhaji Sorogho keep telling Ghanaians they fixed the water project at Adenta without crediting the one who started it.

“Sorogho only thinks of himself, for 12 years that he has been MP here, at least there should be a hospital, is that someone who thinks of us? Mr Makenzi queried.

He maintained that ‘Operation Get Sorogho Out’ was on course and would come to fruition come November 7.