Come December 7, this year, surprises and shocks would be written on the faces of some parliamentary aspirants when the results for the elections are announced.
One of such constituencies which would record intrigues is the Trobu constituency in the Ga-West Municipal Assembly, where Moses Anim, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary nominee, who is the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP), would this time be coming up against a more formidable female candidate who knows her bearings, Nana Efua Sekyi-Aidoo.
Residents of Nii-Boi Town, Petroleum, Taifa and Mile 7, all strongholds for the NPP MP in the Trobu Constituency have vowed to show Moses Anim where power lies for taking them for granted after they voted for him in 2012, and that they would vote for Nana Addo of the NPP on his presidential bid and vote Nana Efua Sekyi-Aidoo of the NDC for the parliamentary.
“When he needed our votes he visited us all the time in our homes, promising heaven and earth, but after we rallied behind him to clinch to go to Parliament, he has snubbed us. Come to Fishpond (our area) during rainy season and you will cry for us. We understand that it’s not his party that is in power and that there may be sabotages, we at least expect that on the floor of parliament he would raise our concerns for redress”, they lamented.
Others also challenged the MP to as a matter of urgency come public to explain how he spent his MP’s common fund for the past four years, adding that “I am challenging him to come and tell us what he has done with his common fund, it’s just four years but go and see the kind of house he has built”.
Their sentiments were gathered last Sunday during a house- to- house campaign tour by Nana Efua, who was mobbed by residents, tagging her as the Yaa Asantewa of Trobu-Amasaman.
During the tour, the residents appealed to Nana Effua to fully represent them as a woman with love and passion for the ordinary people.
In 2008, the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) candidate Ernest Attuquaye Armah made his way to parliament after he polled 34,797 (48.8%) against Moses Anim with 31,945 (44.8).
However in 2012, Moses Anim mde a strong comeback to wrest the seat from the NDC, polling 46,446 (59%) against his contender, Issaka Amon Kotei, who also polled 27, 888, representing 35.43%.
With going-on at the constituency and as the December 7 election nears, it is becoming more clearer that the NDC may again, grab the seat from the NPP, particularly when it has emerged that executives and die-hards of the NPP are murmuring and have decided to vote ‘skirt and blouse’ against the incumbent Member of Parliament.
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