Mr. Yaya Trawule, the Assemblyman for Shiekomblo Electoral Area in the Jaman North District has appealed to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) delegates to retain Mr. Stevens Siaka, the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for the Election 2020.
Mr Trawule said as the NPP prepares for its constituency primaries scheduled for April 25 this year, Mr. Siaka who is the Deputy Bono Regional Minister had the capability to retain the seat.
He warned that it would be politically suicidal for the NPP if the delegates failed to give the Deputy Minister another mandate to contest the Parliamentary seat.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on Monday at Sampa, the District capital in the Bono Region, Mr. Trawule said the Constituency had remained a stronghold of the opposition National Democratic Congress since 1992, and reminded delegates that it was the incumbent MP who led the Party to snatch the seat from the NDC in the Election 2016.
He said through hard work, the MP had sold and made the NPP and President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's government popular, saying that would subsequently translate into votes for the NPP to retain the seat.
Mr. Trawule pointed out that the Constituency had witnessed an unprecedented record of development in the education and health sectors, while the water situation had also been improved under President Akufo-Addo's government.
He indicated that the MP had facilitated the construction and completion of educational and health infrastructural projects in the District, citing the Nafana and Sumaman Senior High Schools as having benefited from dormitories, sanitary facilities and classroom blocks.
Mr. Trawule said through the assistance of the MP, almost all the basic schools in the Constituency had benefited from teaching and learning materials, classroom blocks, toilets, urinals and computers.
He said the water system in the area had also improved as the MP had constructed several mechanised boreholes to provide potable drinking water for the people.
Adadiem, Duadaso, Mayera and Kokosua communities have benefited from clinics and Community-based Health and Planning Service (CHPS) Compounds, while Asuokoa, Adadiem, Kokoa and Jamera communities had all benefited from mechanised boreholes.
The MP is also constructing 10 hand-pumped boreholes in deprived communities, Mr Trawule said and added that lighting and water systems in Seketia, Goka, Sampa and Adadiem had seen drastic improvements.
Mr. John Komoh, the Jaman North Constituency Organiser, said the Party had grown from strength to strength in the Constituency, stressing that because of the level of development brought to the area, the voting pattern would favour NPP in the impending general election.
He observed that it would be extremely difficult for the Party to retain the seat if delegates failed to re-elect Mr Siaka and therefore implored them to vote for him in the supreme interest of the NPP.
Mr. Komoh added, that was the surest way the NPP could maintain the seat and win the presidential ballot as well.