The inability to marry intended for voters, do ‘thank-you’ celebrations led to my loss – Gambila opens up

Boniface Gambila, a Former New Devoted Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for the Nabdam Constituency, who seem to contested the seat again within 2020 on the ticket from the NPP, has said that he dropped the parliamentary seat as they failed to address the personal complications of some voters within the constituency. Mr Gambila who might be also a former Upper Eastern Regional Minister under the Ruben Agyekum Kufuor administration, offered as MP for the constituency from January 2013 in order to January 2017, noted which he had to prioritise the needs associated with his voters such as financing their education or wellness needs as against needs such as money for bride-to-be price. “You won’t think somebody would say I ought to come and dowry their wife for him whenever others want to go to college. You have to set your focal points right. Somebody would state they have a program and they really want me to come and do the ‘thank you party’ with regard to them…But here is the case you will find young people saying they have been accepted to the nursing colleges plus Senior High Schools and they also don’t have money to go. Or even their relative is at a healthcare facility and they need to pay. Now you need to weigh, at that time, whether to accomplish the ‘thank you party’. You take the risk of the future Elections or you assist the young ones for college, ” he said within an interview on Bolgatanga-based A2 Radio recently monitored simply by MyNewsGh. com. The said that his inability to complete satisfy all the persons whom came with demands he could accomplish may have caused his beat. In the 2016 general polls, Mr. Gambila was conquered by National Democratic Congress’ (NDC’s) Dr . Mark Kurt Nawaane who polled nine, 373 votes representing fifty eight. 95% against his six, 528 votes which displayed 41. 05%. The Nabdam seat which has been one of the conventional seats of the NDC had been for the first time won by the NPP in 2012 after a mass revolt in the region against some recognized ‘Mugabe MPs’ which resulted in the defeat of Moses Asaga. Meanwhile, Mr Gambila has been appointed Ghana’s Ambassador to Burkina Faso within the second term of Chief executive Nana Akufo-Addo.
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