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The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has begun steps to replace the murdered Mfantseman MP, Ekow Quansah Hayford.
Ekow Quansah was murdered on last Friday dawn by armed robbers when returning from a campaign tour with his entourage in the Constituency.
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The NPP has a ten-day deadline to replace Ekow Quansah Hayford before the upcoming general elections.
Ekow Quansah is said to have filed his nomination forms on Thursday and was murdered on Friday, the same day that the Electoral Commission was closing the nomination.
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The Mfantseman constituency chairman of the NPP, Yaw Berchie-Nuako has disclosed that the party executives will be meeting to deliberate on who to succeed Ekow Quansah Hayford ahead of the December polls.
He stated that the replacement must have the qualities of Ekow Quansah Hayford and the person must be able to draw crowds just like Ekow Quansah.
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“The constituency executives here are on the grounds and so we know who can win the seat for us,” Yaw Berchie-Nuako told Daily Graphic.
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He added, “Our late MP was a good man who did a lot of work. His four-year work as MP is far more than the NDC’s work in 8 years. We are not going to rely on sympathy votes. The works of Kwansah Hayford speak everywhere and we are optimistic that the NPP will retain the seat,”
He went on to say, “I was with him when the incident happened and I have still not recovered from it. It has hit us hard but we are praying and know it will make us even stronger.”
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