Henry Quartey, member of Parliament for the Ayawaso Central constituency, has expressed surprise over the votes acquired by his opponent Moses Abor.
According to Quartey, he did not expect Moses Abor to get more than 200 votes in the New Patriotic Party’s(NPP) January 27 parliamentary primaries in the area.
Moses Abor who was the NPP’s former Greater Accra youth organizer, prior to the primary election had stated that he was confident he will emerge victorious in the poll as he was expecting over 70 percent of the votes.
However,after the primary, Henry Quartey who doubles as the Greater Accra Regional Minister polled 594 votes against Moses Abor who had a total of 326 votes.
The Ayawaso Central MP speaking in an interview revealed that close to 70 delegates did not vote in the poll and it affected the voting.
“Frankly, I did not think that he was going to get more than 200 votes. Close to 70 people did not come to vote, and so that affected the voting a bit.”
Henry Quartey added that, despite rumors that Moses Abor contested him because he was making the NPP unpopular with the “Making Accra Work Again” initiative, he sees nothing wrong with a challenge to his candidacy in the constituency because the NPP is a party that believes in internal competitions.
“The party believes in healthy competition or contests, and if you look at it from President [John Agyekum] Kufuor’s time right to this time, there have always been elections, and nobody has ever had it on a silver platter. Once in a while, you get people going unopposed, but the NPP itself believes in competition, and in the end, if a victor emerges, then everyone will rally around that person, and in that spirit, I did not see anything wrong with Moses Abor coming to contest me.”
“In 2020, the constituency thought it wise that I should go unopposed, but this time around, Moses [Abor] wanted to contest me, and that is the spirit of the NPP, and so I don’t have a problem with that.”
