A Media Consultant to the Ministry of Transportation, Mr Ken Stephen Anku, 50, has been elected as the parliamentary candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to contest for the North Dayi seat.
At a well attended function on Sunday, he polled 84 votes, out of the total of 106 delegates.
He beat Akua Sena Apaw-Bri, who had 19 votes, whilst Dominic Peter Krampah was third with three votes.
Speaking at the function, the Minister of Transportation, Dr Richard Anane, urged Mr Anku to work harder to ensure that the party won the North Dayi seat.
The minister advised him to show humility and also share ideas with his colleagues.
On roads, he announced that 15 kilometres of roads would be tarred in every district annually to open up the rural areas to link up the urban areas.
He said since 2006, the government had started a pilot project to tar roads in cocoa growing areas to facilitate the transportation of cocoa to the urban areas.
Dr Anane asked the people to consider what the government had been able to achieve in the past seven years that they had been at the helm of affairs and vote them back to power.
On the Kpando-Worowora-Dambai road,he said the sod would be cut to begin the third phase of the project in July this year.
The minister gave the assurance that the contractors were already on site.
He also gave the assurance that the government would increase the production of cocoa and shea nut in the country to boost the standard of living of the people, adding that everything would be done to increase the fleet of metro-buses in the regions.
He expressed the hope that if retained in power, the NPP government would promote free education programme at the senior high school level to ensure that every child of schoolage attended school.
The chairman of the North Dayi Constituency branch of the NPP, Mr Andy Lartey, pledged their support for the winner to wrest the seat for the party.
Mr Ken Anku in his victory message thanked the delegates for the trust reposed in him and said he had the inspiration to enter politics from the Minister of Transportation, Dr Anane. All the losers pledged their support to the winner.
The election was supervised by Mr James Botchwey of the Kpando District Electoral Commission.
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