An Entrepreneur and renowned Businesswoman Ida Adjoa Asiedu has filed her nomination form to contest the parliamentary primaries of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Ayensuano Constituency in Eastern region for a second attempt with ultimate aim of winning the parliamentary seat back for the NPP.
In the year 2020, Ida Adjoa Asiedu contested the former Member of Parliament for the area then incumbent Ayeh Paye but lost.
The MP was however defeated in the general election by the opposition NDC candidate Nana Yaw Addy Teddy who won by 47.31 % as against 46.71%.
Hon Ayeh Paye is staging comeback while Mark Okraku-Mantey Deputy Minister for Tourism is making his first attempt in the primaries.
However,Ida Adjoa Asiedu was confident she is the best candidate to win back the Ayensuano parliamentary seat for the NPP.
“The Constituency is at the crossroads.We
are confronted with the decision to remain an orphan constituency or present an acceptable candidate to restore our relevance in the political space by wining back our seat”. She stated.
Addressing hundreds of enthusiastic polling station executives and supporters of the party singing and drumming in her support, Ida Adjoa Asiedu said it is evident that she never deserted the constituency after losing the primaries in 2020.
That, she continued to role out community interventions projects dubbed ”Impacting Communities, Improving Livelihood,” aimed at improving various deplorable roads in farming communities, enhancing quality education, youth empowerment, and healthcare.
In terms of job creation, she has constructed a Paper Mill manufacturing company at Anum in the Constituency for the production of tissue papers and other paper products under One district one factory initiative.
The company ,she said ,will provide over 300 direct job opportunities to the youth.
She assured that, the power of education will be leverage under her leadership as MP for the area by sponsoring and securing scholarship opportunities for brilliant students in the Constituency to pursue engineering,medicine, Law and other tertiary related program as part of the broader plan to breakdown the quagmire of poverty.
Ida Adjoa Asiedu further said she will continue to mobilize resources through her none for profit social intervention program “the Abadae3 Care Plan.” to aide poor and vulnerable families in the Constituency.
She assured of supporting farmers in the area by establishing 100,000 -capacity nursery,mobilize agro-chemicals and various farm inputs to support farmers at subsized prices.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
