Bright Wereko Brobbey has won the just ended NPP parliamentary primaries in the Hemang Lower Denkyira Constituency with 269 votes. Mr Wereko Brobbey is the incumbent Member of Parliament for the area.
His contenderNana Kwame Yamoah Hagan, garnered 123 votes to clinch defeat.
Speaking to the media after the results were declared he called for support from all to ensure the NPP retains power in the December polls.
In all four hundred (400) delegates were expected to vote, but our reporter Joseph Kobina Amuah indicated that 391 were present. Five of them had died and the remaining four could not have their names captured in the register. The inability to have the remaining four vote created some bit of a tension but was later resolved with the intervention of the security.
In 2016, the Cape Coast Circuit Court discharged Mr Bright Wereko-Brobbey, and 19 others who were standing trial for their alleged involvement in the stealing and distribution of 1,201 bags of cocoa feed fertilisers belonging to the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD).
The facts of the case, as presented to the court by the prosecutor, indicated that the bags of fertiliser valued at GH¢201, 287.60, were allegedly stolen from the Twifo Praso Office of COCOBOD, and distributed to some farmers believed to be NPP polling station executives to gain political favour for Bright Wereko-Brobbey during the party’s parliamentary primaries held last year.
The court, presided over by Mr Kofi Seshie Amewetewe, said the case was dismissed based on the statement from the Attorney General’s office that there was no evidence to the effect that Mr Wireko Brobbey stole or conspired with any of the suspects to steal fertiliser.
Source: ATLFMNEWS
