{"id":8166,"date":"2020-12-09T20:17:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T20:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/ghana\/?p=8166"},"modified":"2020-12-09T20:17:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T20:17:36","slug":"dr-apaak-re-elected-mp-for-builsa-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/dr-apaak-re-elected-mp-for-builsa-south","title":{"rendered":"Dr Apaak re-elected MP for Builsa South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/ghana\">Ghana<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>By Godfred A. Polkuu<\/p>\n<p>Fumbisi (U\/E), Dec. 9 \u2013 Dr Clement Abasinaab Apaak, the incumbent Member of Parliament in the Builsa South Constituency of the Upper East Region have been re-elected.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Apaak polled 7,451 valid votes out of 16582 while his contender from the New Patriotic Party, Mr Daniel Kwame Gariba, the District Chief Executive for the area, polled 5,674 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Alhassan Azong of the People\u2019s National Convention (PNC) also polled 2931 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Rejected votes were 526, while the total valid ballots were 16,056.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Apaak will be representing the people of the Builsa South Constituency for the second time after he first won the seat in the 2016 Presidential and Parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing journalists after his victory, Dr Apaak said a lot of time, resources and energy were invested into the campaigning process to ensure his victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I say this contest was easy, I will be dishonest, and I am not known to be one who is dishonest. It was extremely challenging, but by the grace of God, hard work, commitment and dedication, and with the will of the people, I have been retained as their Member of Parliament,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He gave the assurance that he would continue to be MP for everyone in the Constituency.<\/p>\n<p>GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. By Godfred A. Polkuu Fumbisi (U\/E), Dec. 9 \u2013 Dr Clement Abasinaab Apaak, the incumbent Member of Parliament in the Builsa South Constituency of the Upper East Region have been re-elected. Dr Apaak polled 7,451 valid votes out of 16582 while his contender from the New Patriotic Party, Mr Daniel Kwame Gariba, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":8165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12],"tags":[5092,429],"class_list":["post-8166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-ghana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dr Apaak re-elected MP for Builsa South - Ghana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/dr-apaak-re-elected-mp-for-builsa-south\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dr Apaak re-elected MP for Builsa South\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. 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