NPP Parlimentary Primaries: Market Queens, Traders pick nomination forms for Charles Bissue to contest Esikado-Ketan seat

Some New Patriotic Party (NPP) executives, market queens, and traders of the Kojokrom market, have picked a nomination form for former Secretary to the dissolved Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), Charles Cromwell Nanabayin Onuawonto Bissue, to contest in the party’s parliamentary primaries in the Esikado-Ketan Constituency of the Western Region.

The market queens and traders on Thursday, December 21, 2023, were accompanied by some polling station executives, a campaign team, and some party faithfuls at the constituency office at Esikado to pay a fee of GH¢3,000.00 for the forms.

In a brief interview with Beach FM, Deborah Egyir, Kojokrom-Nkansah Polling Station’s NPP Women’s Organizer said the reason they decided to pick forms for Mr Bissue to contest was born out of his empathy, love and compassion for humanity.

“He is passionate about our well-being and that of Esikado-Ketan Constituency. Charles Bissue is the right man to succeed the enviable legacy of Joe Ghartey and even do more. We have picked this forms to let him know that we will assure him victory come 2024.”

After giving them the forms, the Constituency Chairman of the party, Frederick Afful, admonished them to refrain from any divisive campaigns that will taint the image of the party in the constituency ahead of the 2024 general elections.

“We plead with you to be courteous in your campaigns. At the end of the day we are going to elect one of our own to contest the other parties in the 2024 elections.”

“We should talk to our followers to refrain from insults and bad name calling. There should be unity; we should support who ever comes out victorious and give the NDC a showdown in 2024”, he added.

At his residence in Kojokrom, the Market Queens and Traders presented the nomination forms to the former Western Regional Secretary of the NPP in the Western Region, Charles Bissue.

Upon receiving it he said “the party decided that we pick our nominations yesterday, but I decided that I pick mine today. Upon consultation, the Queen mothers and traders within Kojokrom and its environs decided that they will go and pick the forms with other women delegates to support me. I must confess, I am really humbled by this action.”

“I believe that on the 27th of January, the delegates are going to do me the favour by voting for me. Once I’m voted, there’s a bigger responsibility on me and I will need everyone to help me -if I fail, we all fail. I’m going to make sure I work with everyone even if they did not vote for me”, he stated.