Election 2020: Banished Sanja Nanja back to Parliament

Parliamentary Candidate for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Sanja Nanja in the Atebubu-Amanten Constituency of the Bono East Region has regained his seat.

Sanja Nanja was banished by the Atebubu Traditional Council and banned from the Constituency for reportedly insulting the Queen Mother of the area, Nana Afuah Denyina, on live radio.

But he contested for the seat which he lost in 2016 to the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP’s) Kofi Amoakohene who is also the Regional Minister and has since won it back in the just-ended polls

He garnered 32,806 of valid votes cast to beat the incumbent who doubles as the Bono East Regional Minister, Kofi Amoakohene who polled 22,815 votes.

Henna Kwaku Abraham of the PPP polled 308 votes with 862 votes being rejected votes.

In all, 55,929 registered voters cast their votes.

A total of 833 candidates contested the parliamentary race in all 275 constituencies in the country.

This year’s election is unique because the biggest opposition party NDC presented a former President John Dramani Mahama whiles the governing NPP presented the sitting President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.