Mr Bernard Ahiafor, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Akatsi South, has been given another endorsement by his constituents to represent them in Parliament for the next four years.
The experienced lawmaker and legal expert received 30,268 votes against his two other aspirants namely Mr Mawuli Ocloo Egos from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) who garnered 3,399, and Mr Dzameshie Donald Brown of the Progressive Alliance for Ghana (PAG), with 461 votes.
His endorsement was confirmed on Sunday by Joseph Fleagboh, the Returning Officer at the Akatsi College of Education round hall, the designated Constituency Collation Center for Akatsi South.
Mr Ahiafor, a Ranking Member on Constitutional, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs Committee of Parliament, won the seat on the NDC ticket during a Constituency by- election in 2013.
That w when the then MP, Mr Edward Doe Adjaho, became the Speaker of Parliament for the Sixth Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana.
He was elected with 12, 079 votes of the total votes to beat his other two candidates, Mr Evans Gadeto, an independent candidate, who had 8,312 votes, and the PPP’s Anthony Tsikata, with 369 votes.
In a short victory speech, Mr Ahiafor expressed gratitude to his constituents for the confidence and trust reposed in him to representative the people for another term and called for peace and unity to drive his development agenda.
The Ghana News Agency saw representatives of the two candidates accepting the results on their behalf.
Mr John Dramani Mahama, the Presidential Candidate of the NDC, polled 31, 564 votes to beat his other contenders.
This year’s election saw 13 Presidential candidates and 807 Parliamentary candidates across the country.
Volta region registered a total of 1,023,836 registered voters across 2,351 polling stations with 58 Parliamentary candidates in the 18 Constituencies.
Among the 58 candidates are women.
Jubilations were wild as motorists, party sympathizers and relatives of the MP took to the streets to celebrate the victory.
