Sam George will be no match – NPP Ningo-Prampram candidate

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary Candidate for the Ningo Prampram Constituency, Sylvester Tetteh, says his resolve to capture the parliamentary seat from the NDC for the first time in the fourth republic remains unshaken.

According to him, the election of Sam Nartey George as the NDC candidate poses no threat to his plans of getting into Parliament. In one of the shocking results from the NDC primaries over the weekend, Sam George beat one of Ghana’s longest serving MPs, ET Mensah, to emerge as the candidate for the Ningo Prampram Constituency. But the NPP’s Sylvester Tetteh in an interview with Citi News, said Sam George will be no match for  him in an election which will be based on issues and competence. “We are going to have this election on order of priorities, development and order of programmes that will help to alleviate the high poverty rate in our constituency. It’s one of the deprived constituencies in this country with poverty level around 51 percent,” he said. Sylvester Tetteh argued that such issues will preoccupy their campaign adding “I believe that the masses are on my side, the impoverished are on my side. NDC had been in government and have controlled Ningo Prampram for so many years, they should tell us what they have done. All the landmark projects that were done in the constituency were projects done by the NPP” he claimed. The Ningo-Prampram seat has traditionally been a safe one for the NDC although the NPP’s candidate is believed to have closed the gap in terms of votes in the last election, and thus could pose a threat to the NDC in 2016.