NDC MP, Eric Afful and Kofi Asante
The 2020 Amenfi West Parliamentary Candidate for NPP in the Western Region, Abraham Kofi Asante, has defected to the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) ahead of the 2024 general elections.
The former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communication (GIFEC) under the current regime, was once a member of the NDC and later detected to the NPP.
However, at the funeral of the late mother of the NDC Member of Parliament for area, Eric Afful over the weekend at Asankragwaa, Kofi Asante was seen having an NDC mofler around his neck and later made it known to the gathering that he has defected to the opposition NDC.
Confirming the story, the Wassa Amenfi West constituency NPP Organizer, Abraham Lincoln described what Kofi Asante has done as political ‘prostitution’.
He said Asante was once an NDC member who became a District Chief Executive (DCE) in the area in the 1990s and was elected as the people’s representative in the country’s legislative assembly from 1997 until he resigned from parliament in 2003 citing personal reasons.
He noted that Asante was appointed GIFEC CEO by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in his first term before Kofi Asante contested for the Parliamentary seat in Wassa Amenfi West on the ticket of NPP and lost to NDC’s Eric Afful, the incumbent MP.
He pointed out that Asante’s latest defection has left many in the constituency describing him as an ‘unfaithful politician’ who need not to be paid attention.
From Emmanuel Opoku, Takoradi