The incumbent Ashanti Regional Chairman for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, has retained his seat.<\/p>\n
This is the third time Chairman Wontumi, as he is popularly called, is securing the seat.<\/p>\n
Chairman Wontumi first won the position in 2014 and was re-elected in 2018. Before this, he was the constituency chairman for Bosomtwe.<\/p>\n
He polled 464\u00a0votes against that of his closest contender, Chairman Odeneho Kwaku Appiah (COKA), who got\u00a0306\u00a0votes and entered the chairmanship race, having served as constituency chairman for Afigya Kwabre South for close to 20 years.<\/p>\n
In this year\u2019s election, his contenders were Asare Bediako, Odeneho Kwaku Appiah, Owusu Aduomi and Oheneba Kofi Adum Bawuah.<\/p>\n
Robert Asare Bediako, a former Asokwa Constituency Chairman who entered the contest for the second time, came third with 20 votes. In his first attempt in 2018, he pulled out of the race at the last minute to allow Wontumi to go unopposed.<\/p>\n
Kwabena Owusu Aduomi, a former Member of Parliament\u00a0for\u00a0Ejisu, who lost a re-election bid as MP in 2019, losing to Dr John Kumah, was entering the regional contest for the first time and came fourth with\u00a0nine<\/strong>\u00a0votes.<\/p>\n Oheneba Kofi Adum Bawuah managed\u00a0three<\/strong>\u00a0votes for the fifth position.<\/p>\n Below is the list of the winners<\/strong>\u00a0and contenders<\/strong>\u00a0from the Ashanti Region.<\/strong><\/p>\n CHAIRMAN<\/p>\n 1. BERNARD ANTWI BOASIAKO ( INCUMBENT) \u2013 464<\/p>\n 2. ASARE BEDIAKO \u2013 20<\/p>\n 3. ODENEHO KWAKU APPIAH -306<\/p>\n 4. OWUSU ADUOMI \u2013 9<\/p>\n 5. OHENEBA KOFI ADUM BAWUAH \u2013 3<\/p>\n \u00a0FIRST VICE-CHAIRMAN<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. KWABENA NSENSKYIRE( INCUMBENT ) \u2013 342<\/p>\n 2. PATRICK ACHEAMPONG -358<\/p>\n 3. KENNEDY MARFO -46<\/p>\n 4. Yaw BOATENG \u2013 26<\/p>\n \u00a0SECOND VICE-CHAIRMAN<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. RICHIES OSCAR -140<\/p>\n 2. PATRICK GYAMFI 153<\/p>\n 3. VICTORIA OWUSU-ACHIAW \u2013 422<\/p>\n 4. ABRAHAM BOADI \u2013 11<\/p>\n 5. SAMUEL ABANGA \u2013 41<\/p>\n 6. MOHAMMED SEIDU \u2013 32<\/p>\n NASARA COORDINATOR<\/strong><\/p>\n ALHAJI SAALIM BAMBA ( INCUMBENT & UNOPPOSED )<\/p>\n SECRETARY<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. LAWYER KWAME ADOM APPIAH ( INCUMBENT ) \u2013 411<\/p>\n 2. NELSON OWUSU ANSAH -390<\/p>\n ASSISTANT SECRETARY<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. ALLEN GYIMAH ( INCUMBENT) \u2013 536<\/p>\n 2. PAUL YANDOH -190<\/p>\n 3. SHADRACK AGYAPONG \u2013 38<\/p>\n 4. KWAME BEDIAKO \u2013 38<\/p>\n TREASURER<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. HAJIA ZAINAB SALLOW (INCUMBENT) \u2013 381<\/p>\n 2. FREDERICK ADDAE -151<\/p>\n 3. ISAAC OSEI KWARTENG \u2013 221<\/p>\n 4. FOSTER KWADWO ASARE- 41<\/p>\n YOUTH ORGANISER<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. MICHAEL OFORI AKUOKU \u2013 21<\/p>\n 2. RAPH SARFO PARTICK \u2013 294<\/p>\n 3. OHEMENG AMOORE- 7<\/p>\n 4. MARTIN AMEYAW \u2013 245<\/p>\n 5. KWABENA AMO AIDOO -25<\/p>\n 6. ISAAC BONSU -32<\/p>\n 7.LAWRENCE AGYARKO -34<\/p>\n 8. HENRY DUAH BOATENG \u2013 147<\/p>\n WOMEN ORGANISER<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. NANA AMA AMPOMAA -419 ( INCUMBENT )<\/p>\n 2. BEATRICE OWUSU \u2013 344<\/p>\n 3. ADWOA KONADU \u2013 34<\/p>\n ORGANISER<\/strong><\/p>\n FRANCIS ADOMAKO ( INCUMBENT & UNOPPOSED )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The incumbent Ashanti Regional Chairman for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, has retained his seat. This is the third time Chairman Wontumi, as he is popularly called, is securing the seat. Chairman Wontumi first won the position in 2014 and was re-elected in 2018. Before this, he was the constituency chairman for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":22614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[2508,4231,7455,2244,8148,7489,6819,11959,2901,911,8850,5092,8640,10776,10634,278,2035,7968,5399,1198,5911,6200,12851,5320,6925,594,5784],"class_list":["post-22613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-alhaji","tag-ama","tag-ashanti","tag-ashanti-region","tag-bernard-antwi-boasiako","tag-chairman","tag-chairman-wontumi","tag-chairmanship","tag-ejisu","tag-election","tag-henry","tag-isaac-osei","tag-john-kumah","tag-lawyer","tag-lost","tag-mp","tag-new-patriotic-party-npp","tag-nine","tag-oscar","tag-parliament","tag-patrick","tag-race","tag-winners","tag-women","tag-wontumi","tag-who","tag-youth"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}