Nii Lantey Vanderpuye wins Odododiodoo, Zanetor keeps Korle Klottey
The incumbent Nii Lantey Vanderpuye, member of Parliament for the Odododiodoo Constituency has won for third time.
Out of 254 polling stations from a total of 258 polling stations certified by the EC, Mr Vanderpuye had polled a total of 40,502 seats as his closest contender Nii Lantey Bannerman polled a total of 34, 289.
He was picked up by the joint military-police operation on Tuesday dawn after some chaos in the Constituency.
The lawmaker and parliamentary candidate on the ticket of the NDC was picked up with the wife, daughter and other fifteen men who were with him on the basis of alleged shooting in the area.
He earlier explained to GhOne TV that the police broke into his hotel apartment he was working from.
According to his lawyer Lesliw Anim, he has been taken to the Central police station in Accra.
Reports indicate that Nii Lante Bannerman’s men attacked him in his hotel but he has rather been arrested.
Meanwhile in the Korle Klottey parliamentary NDC’s Dr Zanetor Rawlings polled 39,193 to retain her seat beating her contender Prince Appiah Debrah who polled of the NPP who garnered 31,239 votes.
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