The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Bernard Bediako Baidoo has won the Akwatia by-election held today, Tuesday, September 2, 2025.
Baidoo secured 18, 199, of the votes representing 54.3 % while Solomon Kwame Asumadu trailed him with 15, 235.
The private legal practitioner performed better than his former client and former Member of Parliament (MP) Henry Boakye, who he unseated in the primary.
His main contender, Solomon Asumadu, a miner and businessman, is performed lesser than the late MP Ernest Yaw Kumi, who he was attempting to succeed. The soft spoken aspirant was trashed even in his own hometown of Boadua.
Indeed, Executive Director of Global Info Analytic Mussa Dankwah who projected a win for the NDC, described the poor shown of the NPP candidate at Boadua results from his hometown as “total collapse of the NPP”.
In the backyard of Baidoo, he won in all the polling stations in Takrowase where he is praised for facilitating the building of the popular Mahama E-Block while in law school.
Even in polling stations where his opponent won, Baidoo performed better than previous elections and better than Asumadu’s performance in areas where the lawyer won.
Some of the polling station results are: Bus Technical Akwatia NPP 90, NDC 226, Palace Square New Wenchi A: NPP 152, NDC 79, Salvation Primary School Topremang: NPP 167, NDC 343, Town Mosque Takrowase: NPP 90, NDC 230, Bus Terminal, Akwatia: NPP 90, NDC 226.
Others are: Lorry Station Akwatia: NPP, 83, NDC 333, Bus Terminal, Boadua: NPP 111, NDC 323, Lorry Station Boadua: NPP 127, NDC 282, Alafia Play Grounds: NPP 29, NDC 218, A. M. E. Zion Church Akwatia: NPP 118, NDC125, Presby J.H.S, Boadua (Old Block): NPP 117, NDC 98.
The election of the legal practitioner now makes the constituency no stronghold for any of the two parties.
They have both won it four times each. Unlike the Ablekuma North rerun where some a few violence were recorded, the Akwatia by-election was incident free. Former MP for the area Baba Jamal described the election as “free and fair”.
By Gifty Boateng