[ 2014-12-21 ]

Landslide Victory: Portuphy, Adams pummel incumbent Adjei and Yaw Gyan
Two leading members of the National Democratic
Congress (NDC); Dr. Kwabena Adjei and Yaw Boateng
Gyan have lost their positions as National
Chairman and National Organiser of the governing
party respectively.

Kofi Adams today grabbed the National Democratic
Congress' National Organiser position from
Incumbent Yaw Boateng Gyan.
Provisional results indicate that Mr Adams
recorded an overwhelming victory, polling 2,457
to beat the incumbent, Yaw Boateng Gyan whose 743
secured votes were insufficient to keep him the
position.

Dr. Kwabena Adjei lost the position after managing
only 316 votes against the delegates’ preferred
choice, Kofi Portuphy, currently the National
Coordinator for the National Disaster Management
Organisation (NADMO) who polled 2,451 votes. Mr.
Dan Abodakpi secured 508 votes.

Johnson Asiedu Nketia, a.k.a. General Mosquito
retained his seat with 2,685 votes.

Jemima Anita Desooso, Lee Ocran, Samuel
Ofosu-Ampofo, Betty Mould-Iddrisu, Anthony Gyampo
and Harry Zakour grabbed six available Vice
Chairmanship positions.

The Communications Officer, formerly Propaganda
Secretary position, was won by Solomon Nkansah who
polled 1528 as opposed to Kobby Fiagbe's 1440
votes.

Voting ended approximately 8pm at the Baba Yara
Sports Stadium, Kumasi in the Ashanti Region where
the 8th National Delegates’ Congress was held.
It took officials from the Electoral Commission
about five hours to do the sorting and counting of
ballots, before eventually announcing the
results.

About 3,600 delegates from ten regions across the
country took turns to cast their ballots to elect
24 national officers out of the 70 who contested
the positions.

Alhaji Huudu Yahaya in a surprise move withdrew
from the chairmanship race, minutes before the
casting of ballots began, leaving the battle to
Incumbent chair, Kwabena Adjei, NADMO boss Kofi
Portuphy and Dan Abodakpi.

Below are provisional results from our team on the
ground.

General Secretary
Johnson Asiedu Nketia
2,685
Abdullah Ishaq Farrakhan
606

National Chairman
Kofi Portuphy
2,457
Dan Abodakpi
610
Kwabena Adjei
316

Vice Chair
Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo 2490
Jemima Anita Desooso
1811
LeeOcran
1198
Betty Mould-Iddrisu
2258
Harry Zakour
2146
Alhaji Said Sinare
1425

National Organiser
Kofi Adams
2,543
Yaw Boateng Gyan
734

National Treasurer
Abdullah Ahmed Abdullai
1,725
John Owusu Amankrah 731
Kamal Noshie
520
Awudu Ariff Abubakar
202

Communications Officer
Solomon Yaw Nkansah 1528
Godson Kobby Agbeli Fiagbe 1440
Nii Dodoo Dodoo
308

Source - Joy News

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