18 NDC MPs now casualties

Certified results of the December 7 polls reported by the Graphic so far show that as many as 18 MPs have been swept off their seats.

The first on the list is one time Majority Leader in Parliament now Minister of Food and Agriculture, Mr J.H. Owusu Acheampong, who has lost her Berekum seat to NPP's Captain Nkrabea Effah Dartey.

Another victim is the Interior Minister, Nii Okaidja Adamafio of the NDC, beaten in the Ododiodio constituency which he had won from Mr Samuel Odoi Sykes, current national chairman of the NPP, in 1996. Adamfio went down with his deputy Mr Kwaku Acheampong Bonful (Prestea Huni Valley).

Other NDC members who have suffered defeat include Mr I.K. Adjei- Mensah (Techiman North), Alhaji Kwadwo Mahama Adam (Techiman South), and Mr Richard Dornu Nartey (Shama). The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Mr Joshua Alabi (Krowor), Deputy Minister of Mines and Energy, Mr Samuel Abingya (Bolgatanga) and Sq. Ldr. C.M.K. Sowu (rtd) all contesting on the NDC ticket lost their seats.

Meanwhile, Mr Huudu Yahaya, General Secretary of the ruling NDC has expressed the party's disappointment over the performance of some of its parliamentary candidates in Thursday's elections, though admitting that it was too early to make any generalisation.