GREL Human Resource Manager wins NPP primary in Shama Constituency

Shama (W/R), May 1, GNA -- A 55-year-old Joseph Cantamanto Garbral, a Human Resource Manager of the Ghana Rubber Estates (GREL), on Saturday won the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary primary in the Shama Constituency for the 2012 parliamentary elections.

He polled 174 of the valid votes cast to defeat three other contestants in the race.

Mr AtO Panford polled 145 votes to place second, Lawyer Samuel Erickson Abakah of Sekyi-Hughes Chambers polled 70 votes to place third while the former NPP Member of Parliament for Shama and a former Deputy Minister of Education, Madam Angelina Baiden Amissah, had 37 votes to place fourth.

Mr Garbral pledged to bring all the contestants on board to form a

formidable campaign team to wrest the seat from the National Democratic

Congress. He said the NPP lost the seat to the NDC by 816-votes difference in th= e

last election, and would therefore analyze the party's mistakes and

shortcomings in order to mount a good strategy to re-capture the seat. He urged all party faithful in the constituency to rally behind him in= his

quest to reclaim the seat, adding that now that they had settled the

parliamentary primaries, they should pay much attention on how to win both

the presidential and parliamentary elections in 2012 in order to provide go= od

governance to the people of Ghana.