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The parliamentary candidate of the New Patriotic Party for the central constituency of Navrongo in the Upper East region, Miss Tangoba Abayage
The New Patriotic Party (PNP) parliamentary candidate for the Navrongo central electoral district in the Upper East region, Ms. Tangoba Abayage, has admitted defeat in the parliamentary elections.
Miss Abayage in a Facebook post said she was proud to have given her opponents a close race, although the Election Commission has yet to release the official results of the General Election.
Ms. Tangoba Abayage expelled incumbent MP and Minister of Aviation, Mr. Joseph Kofi Adda in the Navrongo Central nuclear power plant primaries for the opportunity to contest the seat on the nuclear power plant ticket.
She posted: “Unfortunately, I lost to men! 😩
But I lift my chest boldly! 😊😊💃🏽💃🏽
There has never been this fight at Navrongo before.
Navrongo wins at the end of everything.
No body dust; Just shine shoes and dance into the future!
#GodDeyWeDey! 👏🏽👏🏽🙏🏽 “
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Competition
Miss Abayage, the current regional minister of the Upper East and the opposition NDC, Mr. Sampson Tangombu Chiragia, also known as ‘STC’, a tax auditor are the pioneers of the two horse race.
Navrongo Central is already known as a changing constituency judging by voting patterns since the country’s return to constitutional rule in 1992.
Swing constituency
In 1992, Godfrey Abullu of the NDC won the parliamentary elections and in 1995, when there were by-elections, an independent candidate, John Setuni Achuliwor, won and took the seat. In 1996, however, Clement Tumfuga Bugase, won on the NDC ticket.
Then in 2000, Achuliwor returned again, but this time on the PNP ballot and won the election. Unfortunately, Achuliwor’s term was short-lived as he died in a car accident on January 25, 2003, justifying a by-election on March 25, 2003.
The constituency’s incumbent deputy, Mr. Kofi Adda, won the by-elections for the PNP and became a deputy in 2003, and won subsequent elections until he was defeated in 2012 by Mark Owen Woyongo of the NDC. Woyongo held the NDC position until he lost it in 2016 to Kofi Adda.
Skirt blouse
An assessment of the voting pattern in the general elections between 2008 and 2016 points to the fact that members of Navrongo’s central constituency voted ‘skirt and blouse’ in the 2016 elections.
At the parliamentary level, they voted for the PNP candidate, who is also the current Navrongo Central MP and Minister of Aviation, Mr. Adda, but the constituents nonetheless voted for the standard-bearer and former NDC chair, Mr. John Mahama, with 18,810 votes, representing 47.19 percent, while incumbent President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo obtained 18,759 votes, representing 47.06 percent.
In 2012, the constituency electorate voted for the NDC in both parliamentary and presidential elections. Mark Woyongo got 17,907 votes, representing 53.16 percent, to beat his closest rival, Adda, who got 15,443 votes representing 45.84 percent.
These voting patterns therefore echo the point that winning the 2020 parliamentary elections will be a 50-50 affair.
Judging from the results of the last three elections, both the NPP and the NDC presidential candidates have had significant votes compared to smaller parties such as the National People’s Convention (PNC), the People’s Convention Party ( CPP), the United Ghana Movement, the Great Consolidated People’s Party, the Progressive People’s Party among other parties.
Therefore, smaller parties cannot pose a threat to the NDC and the PNP at both the parliamentary and presidential levels.
Candidates background
Both candidates are contesting the parliamentary seat for the first time in a general election. They both have rich experiences and strong backgrounds in their chosen career. Just as Ms Abayage perhaps feels a push for her NDC contender as her government is currently in power, Mr Chiragia, on the other hand, arguably also has his strength as a grassroots man.
Both candidates have strong academic and professional backgrounds in addition to their political experience.
For example, although Mr. Chiragia is a Fiscal Auditor, a member of various professional bodies, he has also actively participated in the party front as an organizer.
A gender activist, Ms. Abayage, will enter the contest as the substantive regional prime minister of the Upper East region, having defeated the incumbent in the PNP primaries.
Visions of the candidates
Both candidates, as part of their visions and campaigns, pledged to prevail over the members and supporters of their respective campaign teams to avoid insults and run “problem-based campaigns.”
Mr. Chiragia has further indicated that his primary vision is to help create more job opportunities for young people in order to enable them to contribute significantly to the development of their respective communities and prevent them from engaging in crime.
In particular, she mentioned local artisans and women’s groups who needed start-up capital to establish their businesses, as well as additional training to acquire skills.
Fondly called the ‘Lioness’, Ms Abayage believes her ability to effectively manage the region thus far puts her in a better position to manage the Navrongo Central constituency when she is elected as a deputy.
As a way to solve one of the constituency’s development challenges, he has taken the initiative to donate at least 1,000 double desks in an attempt to reduce the number of children sitting on the bare floor of their classrooms for lessons.
In August this year, the PNP parliamentary candidate donated 400 of the double desks to the Kassena – Nankana Municipal Education Directorate for distribution in Navrongo schools.
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