A private Legal Practitioner who is currently Akyem Kusi Electoral Area coordinator for the New Patriotic Party, Lawyer Kwame Owiredu Donkor, is expected to Contest the Parliamentary Primaries in the Akwatia Constituency of the Eastern Region.
Lawyer Kwame Owiredu Donkor started feasibility studies in 2018 and his posters are currently trending in Social media but he is yet to pick nomination forms.
The seat is currently occupied by Mrs. Mercy Adu Gyamfi Bello, Popularly known as “Amasey” who won the Parliamentary seat in 2015 and defeated NDC’s Lawyer Mohammed Baba Jamel in 2016 Election with 21,433 votes against 15,905.
Mrs. Mercy Adu-Gyamfi attended Presby Middle School in Akwatia in the year 1988 and obtained Middle School Leaving Certificate. (MSLC) and a member of the New Patriotic Party, the majority group in parliament and a member of the Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana.
She is a member of some committees in Parliament; she serves on the Committee on Employment and social welfare and housing committee.
She is a businesswoman and a hairdresser by profession and became a member of Ghana’s parliament in December 2016 when she won the seat for Akwatia constituency in the Eastern Region. She was a managing director, of Amasey Pharmacy, in Kade, in the Eastern Region.
Source: Kofi Atakora
