I will not go for re-election in 2024- Zebilla MP announces I McBashMedia
The Member of Parliament for Zebilla Constituency in the Upper East Region of Ghana, Hon Lawyer Cletus Apul Avoka has officially announced his intention not to seek re-election to Parliament in the impending 2024 general elections.
The MP disclosed this at his residence in Zebilla, the capital of the Bawku West District when he organised an end-of-year party for constituency executives, party serial callers, former District Chief Executives, Assembly Members as well as other relevant stakeholders in the party.
His announcement, if carried through, will bring to an end an illustrious law-making career and one of Ghana’s longest-serving lawmakers.
With the birth of the fourth Republican constitution in 1992, Hon Avoka has since been the most popular face in the Zebilla constituency in Parliament and even more so for the NDC.
Except for the 2004 and 2016 elections, which he lost to Mr. John Ndebugre of the PNC and Frank Fuseini Adongo of the NPP, Hon Avoka has been the constant feature for Zebilla in Parliament on the ticket of the NDC.
During the 1992 main elections, Hon Avoka entered Parliament unopposed, in the 1996 general elections he was contested byMr. Faizal Bob Anaba, then Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) deputy regional secretary and Mr Simon Bugre Ayagiba, then managing director of Juspong Textiles Limited.
During the 2000 elections, the leadership of the party agreed that there should not be primaries in the Constituency and therefore he went unopposed. In 2004, Hon Cletus Apul Avoka was contested by the former District Chief Executive for the area, Mr. Sulley Agholisi and won. In 2007, another former District Chief Executive for the Bawku West District, Hon Alhaji Morro Anaba also contested Hon Avoka and lost to him at Kukuruzua. In 2012 when lawyer Apul Avoka was the Majority leader of Ghana's Parliament, lobbied and brought a whole lot of development to the constituency, he again went back to Parliament unopposed but was contested by three (3) candidates in the 2015 primaries. These three candidates were Hon Alhaji Morro Adam Anaba, the then District Chief Executive for Zebilla, Hon Simon Agbango Ayande and Hon Ebenezer Alumire Ndebilla but the three finally lost to Avoka.
During the 2019 Parliamentary primaries, four candidates contested him and came out victorious in the exercise. The four candidates were, Hon Simon Agbango Ayande, Hon Ebenezer Alumire Ndebilla, Hon Eugene Mbilla and Hon Abass Apasi.
He called for unity among the rank and file of the party in the Constituency, the entire region and Ghana in general in order for the party to recapture power from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2024 general elections.
Check the facts and make sure the facts you have put out here are right. I know John Ndebugre and Mr. Adongo beat Hon Avoka in some of the elections which I have stated.
Chronicling who he contested in the primaries in about five different paragraphs makes your write-up boring. You can use some of the paragraphs to tell us more about his educational background; his family background (whether he is married and with how many kids), and you can list some of his achievements as an MP.
But please make sure the facts you are presenting about him, especially in Parliament are correct. I have a lot on my plate. Don’t make me do research as part of the little help I want to offer.
Story by Major(GBC).
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