The National Youth Authority’s CEO has won New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary primaries held in the Bortianor Ngleshie Amanfro constituency in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra.
Sylvester Tetteh was declared the winner by the Principal Electoral Officer of the Electoral Commission Mr Kwabena Ape Ayeh at the collating centre on the premise of the party’s constituency office at Bortianor.
Mr Tetteh polled 317 out 540 vote cast to defeat the incumbent Hon. Alhaj Habib Sad and four others in the keenly contested primaries.
The incumbent Alhaj Habib Sad received 178 vote followed by Frederick Abban 36, George Osei Ware and Gifty Mensah polled zero vote.
In his victory speech Mr Tetteh thanked his supporters and his campaign team for their hard work for has resulted in his victory.
He said he and the defeated contestants are from one family who always dine together on one table so they continue to work together to make sure the NPP win the December polls.
The task ahead of Mr Tetth is to face the National Democratic Congress’s parliamentary candidate Mr Alexander Akuako who was elected this year.
The race for the Bortianor Ngleshie Amanfro seat will be interesting as both Mr Tetteh and Mr Akuako are faces in the constituency.
Mr Alexander has been contesting the Okaikoi South parliamentary seat on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress but he changed his direction to Amanfro while Mr Sylvester Tetteh who too contested the Ningo Prampram Parliamentary seat 2016 which was won by Sam George of the NDC cross over to Ngleshie Amanfro voters will have to choose from two young politicians with same political history.
