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Mr Frank Aboagye Danyansah, an estate developer, has been acclaimed as Progressive Peoples Party parliamentary candidate for Obuasi East Constituency.

The acclamation was supervised by officials of the electoral commission after Mr Danyansah, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Danywise Estate and Construction, was retained as the sole candidate after close of the party’s nomination for the slot.

Mr Danyansah told the Ghana News Agency that he has unveiled a chain of campaign activities and development agenda focusing on human development and progressive leadership to generate job opportunities and tackle the protracted unemployment menace in the area.

"Our country is at the threshold of a new era, an era that beckons for a new kind of leadership, a leadership that is uncontaminated by the prejudices of the past, a leadership committed to change [and ready to] solve the everyday problems that confront the average Ghanaian."

"I have come to launch a campaign of ideas, not one of calumny; I have come to preach love, not hate. I have come to break you away from divisive tendencies of the past which have slowed our drive to true nationhood, I have no enemies to fight, you are all my friends and we share a common destiny,” he said.

“I shall strive to the best of my ability to help resolve the problem of unemployment within our communities with a gold refinery [and make] make the constituency attractive to investors.”

Mr Danyansah also pledged to facilitate the construction of a wood village and expand an existing timber market into ultra-modern facility, and build a central market to decongest Obuasi market and minimize vehicular and human traffic.

“We intend to put up a modern central market within Obuasi East, this market will be the centre of Adansi market where all towns and villages around Obuasi will bring their produce for sale, it will ease pressure on the already existing market and create traffic free environment for us,” he said.

Mr Danyansah said financing of the projects would not come from a common fund or government funding but through interventions of investors with the transformative and progressive leadership of the PPP leading the process.

“We’ve [PPP leadership] already appealed to investors who are ready to help and assist us, we have the network to make it happen.”

Mr Danyansah called for unity and contest of ideas among political parties to better inform the electorate to make informed choices as to who was fit to move the constituency into prosperity and transform people’s living conditions.

He said the PPP would promote cleaner environment, advocate the use of more paper bags instead of plastics, and preach attitudinal change to people to dispose waste appropriately to prevent recurrent of outbreak of diseases that claim lives every year.