Akufo-Addo Congratulates NDC, Commends EC For Credible Assin North Election

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has hailed the Assin North by-election as “credible” after the candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) won the seat.

According to him, the democratic credentials of Ghana were “strengthened even further” as the election was characterized by peace and credibility.

He believes this was a result of the effective measures laid out by the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Jean Mensah and her outfit as well as the security agencies.

“I congratulate warmly the Chairperson and Members of the Electoral Commission, again, for a job well done. The security services are to be commended for maintaining law and order during the holding of the elections; as is the media for providing extensive coverage before, during and after the elections.”

In a Facebook post, he congratulated the NDC for their retention of the seat and urged his party men to “keep their heads high”.

“I congratulate the National Democratic Congress on its victory yesterday.”

“I urge members of my party, the New Patriotic Party, to keep their heads up, recognising that, in a democracy, there are winners and losers, and that we live to fight another day. We once held the Assin North seat, and I am confident that, sooner rather than later, Assin North will be blue again.”

The NDC’s candidate, James Gyaakye Quayson, stood to contest the by-election after he was ousted from office through a supreme court ruling that rendered his election in 2020 null and void saying he had not renounced his Canadian citizenship when he filed to be elected and subsequently got elected as an MP.

He was contested in the by-election by New Patriotic Party (NPP)’s Charles Opoku and the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG)’s Bernice Enyonam Sefenu.

Certified results after the June 27 By-election showed the NPP polled 11,389 (42%); LPG – 85 (0.28%) and NDC – 17,205 (57.4%).