Kumasi, May 7, GNA - Madam Josephine Hilda Addo, New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Kwadaso, on Wednesday lost to Dr. Owusu Afriyie Osei Akoto in a primary held in Kumasi. She polled 30 votes out of the 72 total ballots cast while the winner had 42 votes with Mr. Alex Adusei, the Deputy Managing Director, Divestiture Implementation Committee (DIC), polling no votes. Dr. Akoto, 58, Director of the Kuapa Cocoa Buying Company, called on the party members to be committed to the tenets and principles of the party.

He pledged to collaborate with the polling station executives in the constituency to streamline the party's activities to brighten the NPP's chances in the December polls. Mr. Sam Cudjoe, the Ashanti Regional Secretary of the party, said the party believed in internal democracy and that the leadership would step up efforts to adhere to that principle to ensure that the party chalked a landslide victory in the elections. In the Subin constituency, Mr Isaac Osei, Chief Executive of COCOBOD, polled 52 votes to beat his two main challengers, Mr George Ayisi Boateng, a Kumasi businessman who had 18 votes and Mr Eugene Antwi, 34 votes. The incumbent MP, Mr Sampson Kwaku Boafo, who is also the Minister of Culture and Chieftaincy Affairs, did not contest.