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General news for Thursday, December 10, 2020
Source: Ofori Frimpong, Contributor
2020-12-10
Dr. Baffour Awuah’s appointment as head of GHS was revoked by President Akufo-Addo in 2019
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has lost for the first time in the Upper West Denkyira parliamentary seat in the 2020 general election.
According to the source of the vine, the defeat is due to the revocation of the appointment of Dr. Baffour Awuah.
Dr. Baffour Awuah, a former physician at Komfo Anokye University Hospital, a radiation oncologist and former head of the oncology directorate before he became KATH’s chief medical officer, was so closed to become CEO, but His Excellency shot him in the foot. Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo-leaving voters upset.
Dr Baffour Awuah confirmed in 2019 that the government canceled its decision to appoint him as the new Director General of the Ghana Health Service.
But some reports nonetheless suggest that the termination follows information sent to government headquarters by a medical team loyal to the New Patriotic Party that revealed that the new head of the GHS is a loyal opponent of the NDC since 1992, but managed to open up. road in the PNP after January 7, 2017.
The consistency of Upper West Denkyira has been a stronghold for the New Patriotic Party, but due to the unfair treatment Dr. Baffour Awuah received, the PNP saw a defeat in the constituency.
However, there were numerous calls from the Chiefs, opinion leaders, youth groups and Constituents fell on dead ears.
The statistics of the surveys are as follows;
2004: CN 12, 072
NDC 5, 339
Parliamentary results: NPP 12, 177 NDC- 5,445
2008: PNP accumulated 10,668
NDC 6,291
MP: NPP 9, 339
NDC 1,769
Presidential 2012: NPP 15, 364
NDC: 10,830
Parliamentarian: NPP 14,111
NDC: 10, 192
2016: CN 17,068
NDC: 10, 030
Parliamentarian: NPP 16,881
NDC: 10 655
2020: CN: 18, 413
NDC: 17, 136
Parliament: NPP 15, 662
NDC: 16, 159
The above figures clearly show that Upper Denkyira West was a stronghold of the ruling PNP until this year’s elections.
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