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The New Patriotic Party (NPP)’s Constituency Chairman for Tema West, Dennis Amfo-Sefah, has rebuffed NDC’s Sammy Gyamfi’s argument that the losing of about 40 sitting Parliamentarians reflects the voters’ verdict that President Akufo-Addo has performed poorly in office.

"If wins and losses at the NPP’s primaries are what determine how Ghanaians judge the performance of President Akufo-Addo, then it means that Ghanaians see President Akufo-Addo as the best for re-election in December.

“This is because, the whole party is preparing to acclaim President Akufo-Addo as 2020 Flagbearer on June 27,” Mr. Amfo-Sefah said.

Speaking to the Ghana News Agency in Accra on the just-ended NPP primaries, Mr. Amfo-Sefah who is popularly called Nana Boakye said Sammy Gyamfi, by his logic, has actually endorsed President Akufo-Addo for re-election in December.

His comments are in response to Sammy Gyamfi’s statement that the mass vote out of sitting MPs, some of whom were Ministers of State, was a verdict from the NPP’s own delegates that the Akufo-Addo’s government had performed abysmally and therefore did not deserve a second term.

“ . . we must hasten to add, that the results that emerged out of the NPP’s primaries, where as many as over 40 incumbent MPs lost their seats, reflects the dissatisfaction of NPP supporters and Ghanaians at large, with the abysmal performance of the Akufo Addo government,” Mr. Gyamfi said when addressing a news conference in Accra on Monday .

He added that, “the defeat of so many incumbents, especially those in Parliamentary leadership, showed that the NPP delegates voted for change and passed an overwhelming vote of no confidence in their own government.”