Former National Democratic Congress (NDC) member and current Speaker of Parliament Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin has stressed that the spirit of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is in the Volta region.
He was of the opinion that if the NDC was in place in the region, no other political party would challenge the opposition.
“For my party, I don’t have to say anything. The only thing I can say is that the spirit of the NDC is in the Volta region. If it is nurtured well, we have nothing to fear in any form. There is no,” he said at the Volta Regional House of Chiefs in Ho.
The conference was held as part of activities to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Ghana’s Fourth Republic and parliamentary democracy.
Mr Bagbin praised the Volta region and more specifically the NDC for producing quality parliamentarians since the inauguration of the Fourth Republic in 1993.
He disclosed that these members have played a vital role in preserving the country’s Fourth Republic and developing parliamentary democracy.
“Many people should be grateful to the Volta Region because the system that has brought us this far was created by the leaders of the Volta Region,” he said.
He introduced Susanna Al Hassan, whose mother was from Volta and her father was German. She was the first woman to be appointed as a minister from 1960 to 1966, the first African woman to hold a ministerial career, and the first woman MP for the then Northern Regional Parliamentary Constituency. did.
“You should be proud to be the architect of what we’ve enjoyed for 30 years. It’s an achievement,” he said.
The NDC, founded by the late President Jerry John Rawlings, son of the Volta Region, had won all parliamentary seats in the Volta Region until 2020. In the presidential election, he received a majority of the total votes.
However, the ruling New Patriotic Party has recently been making inroads into the region, securing the Hoho seat held by John Peter Amewu in 2020.
President Akufo-Addo received 101,084 votes, representing 14.1% of the total votes cast in 2020, representing a 3.3% increase from the 60,802 votes cast in the 2016 general election.
John Mahama received 606,424 votes (84.8%), which was a 2.9% decrease from the 2016 general election.
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