The newly-elected Chairman for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Upper Manya Krobo constituency of the Eastern Region, Philip Kweku Mamphey, has assured of his commitment to building the constituency on a united front in readiness for the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections.
Mr Kweku Mamphey says he will tap into the experience and assistance of the Council of Elders and patrons of the constituency to get lasting solutions to issues that may reduce the party’s chances in the 2024 polls.
He was elected on Thursday April 28, 2022 as the constituency Chairman to steer the affairs of the party for the next four years. The constituency is among the few ones in the country who conducted their elections on the first day of the period given by the party’s top hierarchy for the internal reorganisation exercise.
The constituency has thirty-three electoral areas, and the NPP recorded its first election glory in 2016 where the party won the first parliamentary election in the history of the constituency.
However, the win could not be sustained due to some factors, including internal wrangling from the party leadership in the constituency through to the rank and file. In line of that, the party was poised to elect only committed and hardworking individuals to unite the party’s front going into election 2024.
According to some delegates, the challenges which had crippled the party’s ambition of making the constituency a safe seat for the New Patriotic Party must be put aside, as they forge forward for another victory in 2024.
In the New Patriotic Party’s Constitution, out of seventeen constituency positions, ten are supposed to be elected while the others appointed. The chairmanship position was contested by four aspirants, including the incumbent who had been there for twelve years. Even though it was a fierce contest, one could easily conclude that the main contest was between two candidates. It was a charged atmosphere as most party delegates were chanting “we need a new face with youthful exuberance”.
Mr Kweku Mamphey polled 406 votes out of the 625 delegates, against the incumbent, Moses Tetteh, who had 183 votes.
The elected chairman
The newly-elected Chairman was born and bred in Asesewa, the district capital of Upper Manya Krobo. He is affectionately called “Area boy”, as he knows every nooks and crannies in the constituency.
He is a banker by profession, and holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He was a one-time Second Vice-Chairman for the constituency, former Polling Station Secretary for Asesewa Community “B1”, and had been a grassroots person all his life.
Mr. Mamphey has been a staunch member of the New Patriotic Party for more than two decades. He is among the few who have devoted time and resources for the smooth running of party’s activities for years. In the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections, he was acclaimed as one of the most hardworking patriots whose strategies, contributions and engagements won the party its first parliamentary victory in the constituency.
Apart from that, Mr. Mamphey had been a financier of the 2020, 2016 and 2012 campaign team in the constituency and a member of the Eastern Region NPP Communications Team from 2012 to date.
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