Akufo-Addo’s driver files to contest La Dade-Kotopon primary

• Posted on April 22, 2024April 22, 2024
• by Nana Kwesi Coomson
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Joseph Addo, the personal driver of President Nana Akufo-Addo, has expressed confidence in winning the NPP parliamentary primary in La Dade-Kotopon on Saturday, April 27, having successfully filed his nomination to contest in the party’s internal election.

He said he would win the seat back for the New Patriotic Party after the party lost it to the NDC in 2020. The party’s Greater Accra Elections Committee has vetted and approved him for the primary.

“I was born and bred here in La, I have lived all my life here so I am not new in this constituency,” Addo told reporters.

The April 27 primary in the constituency comes on the back of the party’s highest decision-making body, the National Executive Committee (NEC), giving clearance following the resignation of Dr. Gerald Joseph Tetteh, the elected parliamentary candidate for the party. He cited personal reasons for his decision.

“I have helped the youth in this area get jobs and employment in government agencies,” said Joseph Addo, who has served as President Akufo-Addo’s driver over the last two decades.

“My motivation to contest as a parliamentary aspirant of the ticket of the NPP is that I know I can do the job better. Mostly of my supporters are the youth of La who have been neglected by previous MPs in the constituency. They are backing me now because they know I can help them and in fact, I have helped a lot of them,” he said.

According to Addo, although he was in the background, he highlighted some of the things he had done for the party and the constituents.

“Recently when the party needed an office space after the destruction of the old office, I personally worked to get a new office for the party”, he stated.

Joseph Addo is optimistic that he will win both the primary on April 27 and the general election on December 7.

In 2020, Rita Naa Odoley Sowah of the NDC defeated the NPP for the La Dade-Kotopon seat. With the polls in December, the NPP hopes to reclaim the seat.

Meanwhile, Solomon Kotey Nikoi, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for the area, has also filed his nomination to contest the upcoming primary.