Dickson Kyere-Duah, the Member of Parliament-elect for Berekum West constituency, has detailed the strategy he deployed in the elections to upstage Kwaku Agyenim-Boateng, who was the New Patriotic Party’s candidate and incumbent MP.
Dickson Kyere-Duah, a popular sports journalist in the Berekum area, contested on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress in the 2024 elections and won by polling 13,869 votes.
The incumbent MP recorded 8,651 of the total votes cast, and Kyere-Duah believes his decision to make sports the cornerstone of his campaign message did the trick for him.
Dickson Kyere-Duah said on Angel FM that he built his message around how sports could be used as a tool for development and employment.
According to him, this message resonated with the constituents, who welcomed him and expressed their confidence in him by voting massively for him in the December 7 elections.
“There are 21 towns in my constituency, and I won in every one of them. We have 69 polling stations, and I won in 64. Sports did the magic for me. Sports was the driving force behind my campaign because sports for economic development was key.
“I drove a policy of sports so hard that the people had to accept it. I focused on how I could use sports to create employment opportunities for my people. It is about time we develop sports,” he said.
In the 2024 presidential race, former President Mahama, who was the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress, won the race according to the results declared by the Electoral Commission. He beat 12 other candidates with 56.55% of the total valid votes.
His closest contender, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia of the ruling New Patriotic Party, obtained 41.61% of the total valid votes cast.
The NDC has claimed more than a two-thirds majority of the results already declared in the parliamentary race, having won over 180 seats out of 276 available.
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