[ 2016-12-14 ]

Economic hardship caused my defeat – Mark Woyongo
The defeated Member of Parliament for Navrongo
Central, Mark Owen Woyongo, has attributed his
loss in the just ended polls to the hardships
under the Mahama-led administration.

Mr. Woyongo lost his reelection bid to parliament
during last week’s presidential and
parliamentary polls.

He polled 17,203 votes representing 43.89% of the
valid votes cast as against Joseph Kofi Addah’s
20,667 votes representing 52.72%.

Speaking Tuesday on the Ultimate FM’s Breakfast
show, the former Interior Minister said the NDC
government’s failure to the fulfill promises it
made to the electorate gravely affected its
electoral fortunes and his reelection bid.

“There were some of the policies, national in
character that cost me the election. Increased in
electricity tariffs and the general economic
hardship aside the fact that my party executives
did not work well to seal the victory,” he told
Lantam Papanko, host of the Ultimate Breakfast
show.

President John Mahama and the ruling NDC were
defeated in last week’s presidential and
parliamentary polls by the New Patriotic Party led
by Nana Akufo-Addo.

The NPP trashed the ruling party by about one
million votes and also won majority of the
parliamentary seats.

The veteran politician polled 5,716,026 votes
representing 53.85% in the 2016 elections to give
him an edge over the ruling National Democratic
Congress leader Mahama, who garnered 4,713,277
votes representing 44.40% of the total votes.

Source - Starrfm

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