Volta NDC eyes running mate slot

The Volta Regional arm of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has said it will ensure that a Voltarian becomes the running mate to whomever leads the party as flag bearer.

Kafui Agbleze, Director of Communications for the NDC in the Volta Region, told Kwabena Prah Jnr. (The Don) on Accra100.5FM’s Ghana Yensom a day after the party’s National Delegates Congress which elected new national executives, that: “All Voltarians across the country are unified with one voice for a running mate from the region.”

A defeated National Organiser aspirant, Anita De-soso, a Voltarian, said at the Congress grounds that the defeat of many Voltarian candidates who were aspiring to frontline positions meant that Ewes had been sidelined from the game, adding that: “Let’s see how it goes”.

The Volta Region sees itself as the ‘World Bank’ of the NDC.

Mr Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, an Akan, who is not the newly-elected Chairman of the NDC, beat Mr Dan Abodakpi, a Voltarian, and three other aspirants at the Congress.

For the two-man General Secretary race, Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia, an Akan, beat his former Deputy, Koku Anyidoho, a Voltarian.

Mr Sammy Gyamfi, also an Akan, beat Mr Fred Agbenyo, a Voltarian, to become the new National Communication Officer.

Mr Agbleze, however, said the claim that “the Volta Region is not represented in the executive architecture … is untrue”.



“When you look at the two Deputy Youth Organisers, they are Ewes or they are Voltarians. When you look at the Deputy Women’s Organisers, one is a Voltarian. [With the] Deputy Organisers, one is a Voltarian. [With the] NEC members, two are Voltarians. [Of the] two Deputy Communications Officers, one is an Ewe”.

“Voltarians across the country are unified with one voice, they want one key substantive position; that is if John Mahama becomes the flag bearer or whoever becomes the flag bearer, Voltarians want a running mate. The Volta Region wants a running position. That is the thinking; that is the mindset; that is the reality on the ground in the Volta Region. This thing was even espoused before we went for the National Delegates Congress.”



Below is the full list of all the winners and losers:

NATIONAL CHAIRMAN

CANDIDATE VOTES

Dan Abodakpi – 2,199

Betty Mould Iddrisu – 358

Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo – 3,656

Alhaji Huudu Yahaya – 1823

Danny Annang – 309

National Vice Chairman

Lawyer Adu- Yeboah – 782

Said Sinare – 1201

Alhaji Amadu Bukari Sorogho – 605

Seth Ofosu-Ohene – 439

Yaw Owusu Obimpeh – 841

Sherry Ayittey – 1285

Alhaji Sumaila Mahama – 168

Awudu S. Asorka – 2664

Dr Kwame Ampofo – 279

GENERAL SECRETARY

CANDIDATE VOTES

Johnson Asiedu Nketiah – 6642

Samuel Koku Sitsofo Anyidoho – 1,625

DEPUTY GENERAL SECRETARY

Ephram Nii Tan Sackey – 349

Kale Cezar – 867

George Lawson – 547

Alhaji Nuru Hamidan – 1069

Lawyer Barbara Serwaa Asamoah – 3041

Kojo Adu Asare – 288

Evans Amoo – 33

Abdullah Ishaq Farrakhan – 106

Lawyer David Kwaku Worwui-Brown – 136

Nii Dodoo Dodoo – 50

Peter Boamah Otukonor – 1816

NATIONAL ORGANIZER

CANDIDATE VOTES

Mahdi Gibrill – 599

Akamba Joshua Hamidu – 3,084

Jemima Anita De-Sosoo – 300

Yaw Boateng Gyan – 1,843

Baba Jamal Ahmed – 2,107

Enoch Amoako- Nsiah – 74

Solomon Yaw Nkansah – 306

NATIONAL DEPUTY ORGANISER

CANDIDATE VOTES

Dr Alhassan Hanifa – 1,386

Kobby Barlon – 2,619

Vivian Abla Kpeglo – 610

Mohammed Mamudu – 347

Agbesi Nutsu – 332

Chief Hamilton Biney Nixon – 2,405

Alfred Kojo Triddles – 89

Ebenezer Asare Sackitey – 163

Ahmed Gedel – 329

NATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER

CANDIDATE VOTES

Fred Agbenyo – 2,225

Sammy Gyamfi – 6,225

DEPUTY COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER

CANDIDATE VOTES

Godwin Ako Gunn – 1,816

Mahama Seidu Samuel – 573

Kwaku Boahen – 2,851

Alhaji Mohammed Nasiru Seidu – 1,537

Adongo Atule Jacob – 978

Muhammed Nurullah Iddrisu – 472

NATIONAL ZONGO CAUCUS COORDINATOR

CANDIDATE VOTES

Ismail Bawa – 1,132

Alhaji Mamah Mohammed –

Sadiku Sulley – 785

Abdul-Aziz Mohammed – 1,321

Abass Fuseini Sbaabe – 1,011



NEC

Alhaji Sheriff Abudul Nasiru – 1446

Alhaji Habibu Adramani – 1598

Evelyn Enyonam Mensah – 2468

Alhaji Mohammed Mashood – 395

William Wilson Agbleke – 612

Eliyasu Amadu – 276

Hon. Alhaji Babanlamie Abu Sadat – 731

Ebenezer Effah Hackman – 401

Ransford Chatman Vanni-Amoah – 360

Source: Ghana/ClassFMonline.com/91.3FM