NDC controlling majority in Parliament; won 140 seats so far
By: Dorcas Osei
The opposition National
Democratic Congress (NDC) has declared that, it is currently leading with
majority of parliamentary seats confirming 140 seats so far.
This, the party
officials have projected that it puts their presidential candidate John Mahama
in a lead positionas they claim, the presidential candidate in most cases
performed better than their parliamentary candidates.
The Director of
Elections of the Party, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, who made the announcement in
Accra on Tuesday, December 8, 2020, rubbished the claims by the NPP that they
are leading in both Parliamentary and Presidential.
He added that instead,
the NDC is currently leading in both Parliamentary and presidential
results.
“Now if you understand
electoral politics very well you would realize that wherever the Parliamentary
Candidates win the Presidential candidate also wins. So it would be absurd for
somebody to say that in the face of this they've won the election", Mr.
Afriyie Ankrah stressed.
He also disclosed that
for the first time “from the collation we have, John Mahama is doing over
30% in Ashanti region and Greater Accra we are doing 56%.
The NDC Director of
Elections gave the break-down of the seats as follows and urged all supporters
to mass up at the collation centres to prevent the NPP from changing the
results.
Breakdown of the 140
seats:
Upper west - 8
Upper east - 6
Northern - 9 out 18
Bono - 6
Ahafo - 2
Bono East - 9
Western region - 9
Western North - 7
Greater Accra - 20
Central Region - 13
Oti - 8
Volta - 17
Savannah - 4
Eastern - 8
Ashanti - 4
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