A political popularity survey conducted by Scorpion Research Team in the Ketu South Constituency of the Volta Region predicts a win for the former Deputy Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Art, Hon Abla Dzifa Gomashie.
The survey was conducted following the announcement of the incumbent Member of Parliament for the area, Hon Fifi Kwetey that will be no contest the seat after his two terms.
The incumbent MP and former Deputy Finance Minister is about to end his two terms in 2020 and has been touted by his constituents as being able to close developmental deficits under his predecessors.
According to the survey result copied Awake News, majority of the citizens in the constituency believe that if Hon Abla Dzifa Gomashie a former Deputy Minister is given the chance, she can also do her best to close continue the legacies Hon Fifi Kwetey.
The survey results say, among the 12 people who have expressed their interest to contest in the primaries, Abla Dzifa Gomashie had 82% of the respondent accepting her candidature.
“Even before the electoral [provision in the NDC constitution] is triggered, some aspirants are already engaged in a subtle campaign. The Scorpion Research Team has decided to test the popularity of the aspirants among the people in nine communities in the municipality. These communities are arguably the largest in the constituency and can, therefore, satisfy the objective of the research work. The communities are (Aflao-Central, Avoeme, Awakome , Viepe, Denu, Blekusu, Wudoaba, Agbozume & Klikor).” – The researchers said in their report.
According to them, “The research is a voluntary work by some nine erudite individuals who also hail from the communities under the research. We, therefore, have no interest in advantaging or disadvantaging any of the aspirants, but to help the electorates make an informed decision”
“We also believe it will assist the aspirants to plan a lethal campaign strategy to win the hearts of the delegates”
“A simple methodology was employed in this research work. A random sampling was adopted. We chose 20 respondents in each community for this simple research. In all 180 respondents were interviewed which constituted the sample size for this work” – The report explains
WHO IS DZIFA GOMASHIE?
Abla Dzifa Gomashie popularly known as Dzifa Gomashie is the immediate past Deputy Minister for Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts (2013-2017), a Queen in charge of protocol in the Aflao Traditional Area, a veteran Actress, TV Producer, Writer, Poet, Theatre Producer and Entrepreneur.
Dzifa Gomashie holds an MPhil in African Studies, Institute of African Studies (2005-2008), a Bachelor of Fine Arts (2000-2003) with First Class Honours, School of Performing Arts and a Diploma (1994-1998) in Theatre Arts, School of Performing Arts.
All these qualifications were acquired in the University of Ghana, Legon. In 2015, the Global Center for Transformational Leadership conferred on her an Honorary Doctorate in Leadership ( D.L., Honoris Causa) in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Dzifa Gomashie has a passion for the Creative Arts and Culture sector in Ghana and Africa and has dedicated nearly all her adult life projecting and promoting same.
Prior to her appointment as the Deputy Minister for Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, she worked as the Chief Executive of VFL- Ghana, a non-governmental organisation that provides various social interventions to help improve the lives of Children, Youth and Women in Ghana through Creative and Performing Arts, Culture and Traditional Heritage, Tourism and Digital Innovations. Additionally, she worked as the Managing Director of Mama’s Kitchen a local eatery with two branches in Accra and one in Tema.
Earlier in her career, she Produced the most popular TV series known as By The Fireside for close to fifteen years, she occasionally Wrote, Directed and Narrated stories also for Television focusing on socio-cultural issues, reviving and preserving the art of storytelling for the benefit of Children.
She was the host of “Agyapa”, a television show which focused on the celebration of Ghanaian male role models as father’s and professionals.
Dzifa Gomashie has worked in the Creative Arts industry for nearly three decades and received multiple administrative and artistic awards both nationally and internationally for her work.
On March 7, 2016, the City Council of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania honoured and recognised her for her lifelong commitment to the developmental growth of Ghana through her international promotion of Ghanaian Arts and Culture. As recently as March 2017, the Ohio University also honoured her at the World Music and Dance Festival in Ohio.
The Autism Society of Ghana (ASOG) made her their Life Patron, for being a source of encouragement to parents of Children on the spectrum.
Dzifa Gomashie is the Country Representative of the Continental African Queens and Women Cultural Leaders Network (AQWCLN) a not for profit organisation of female cultural leaders who use their peculiar position to advance the UN Development Goals and the promotion of the work of UNAids and UN Women.
She is a popular personality known for her humble disposition and unyielding promotion of anything Ghanaian. She is currently a Culture and Creative Arts Consultant and back with VFL-Ghana as the Chief Executive Director.
Dzifa Gomashie is married to Brigadier General M. K. G. Ahiaglo (RTD) with children.
Below is the outcome of the full Research:
KETU SOUTH PARLIAMENTARY RACE: MAMA DZIFA ABLA GOMASHIE, FOGA NUKUNU &TEACHER JOSEPH NYAVI THE MOST POPULAR ASPIRANTS?
INTRODUCTION
Come 2020 the country will experience another eventful election. Ketu-South will be the center of focus since it is the largest constituency in the country.
There is no doubt that KETU-SOUTH has for sometime now being the bulwark of the opposition NDC. The constituency has neutralized and doused the threats from the other large constituencies that also serve as a Palladia to the NPP.
Article 41 of the NDC constitution stipulates that” The National Executive Committee shall notify each constituency executive committee as to the time of the opening of nominations for the contest of primaries for the parliamentary seat in constituency”
Even before this provision is triggered, some aspirants are already engaged in a subtle campaign. The Scorpion Research Team has decided to test the popularity of the aspirants among the people in nine communities in the municipality. These communities are arguably the largest in the constituency and can, therefore, satisfy the objective of the research work. The communities are (Aflao-Central, Avoeme, Awakome , Viepe, Denu, Blekusu, Wudoaba, Agbozume & Klikor).
The research is a voluntary work by some nine erudite individuals who also hail from the communities under the research. We therefore have no interest in advantaging or disadvantaging any of the aspirants, but to help the electorates make an informed decision.
We also believe it will assist the aspirants to plan a lethal campaign strategy to win the hearts of the delegates.
A simple methodology was employed in this research work. A random sampling was adopted. We chose 20 respondents in each community for this simple research. In all 180 respondents were interviewed which constituted the sample size for this work.
Below are the prospective aspirants who confirmed to the Scorpion Team of their interest to partake in the 2020 parliamentary elections when nominations are opened for filing and contestation.
REAL CONTENDERS
1. KAFUI NYASORGBOR
2. MAMA ABLA DZIFA GOMASHIE
3. CAROLINA KUDAH
4. FOGA NUKUNU
5. TEACHER JOSEPH NYAVI
6. KWAKU AMEDUME
7. SYLVANUS AMEDORME
8. JOHN TUMAKU
9. MAXWELL KWASHIE
10. JOHNSON KPORHA
11. NICHOLAS EZO WORCLACHIE
CONTEMPLATORS
1. ELOLO WHITE
2. ELIZABETH KUENYEFU
3. MARSHALL ACKUMEY
Let me repeat this research is not intended to find the most popular aspirant but the most popular aspirants. So we asked the respondents this question “Which name(s) have you heard will be contesting the 2020 parliamentary elections in KETU-SOUTH?”
The above question is the research work we have done. This research is one of the series of research the Scorpion Team will undertake prior to the opening of nomination and after filing of the nomination papers.
METHODOLOGY
This research work employed a very simple methodology of random sampling. Twenty(20) respondents were interviewed in each of the nine communities randomly. In all, one hundred and eighty (180) respondents were involved in this exercise constituting the sample size.
ANALYSIS & FINDINGS
Below are the results of the research findings conducted by the Scorpion Team in the respective communities;
AFLAO-CENTRAL
1. TEACHER JOSEPH NYAVI .15
2. MAMA ABLA DZIFA GOMASHIE.13
3. FOGA NUKUNU. 11
4. ELOLO WHITE. 4
5. CAROLINA KUDAH 8
6. NO IDEA. 3
AVOEME
1. TEACHER JOSEPH NYAVI. 20
2. MAMA ABLA DZIFA GOMASHIE.18
3. FOGA NUKUNU. 18
4. KWAKU AMEDUME. 2
5. ELOLO WHITE. 8
AWAKOME
1. TEACHER JOSEPH NYAVI. 6
2.MAMA ABLA DZIFA GOMASHIE 9
3. FOGA NUKUNU. 13
4. ELOLO WHITE. 6
5. CAROLINA KUDAH. 3
VIEPE
1. TEACHER JOSEPH NYAVI. 16
2. MAMA ABLA DZIFA GOMASHIE.20
3. FOGA NUKUNU. 20
4. CAROLINA KUDAH. 12
5. KWAKU AMEDUME. 11
DENU
1.TEACHER JOSEPH NYAVI. 11
2. MAMA ABLA DZIFA GOMASHIE.15
3.FOGA NUKUNU. 9
4. ELOLO WHITE. 2
5. CAROLINA KUDAH. 12
6. KWAKU AMEDUME. 8
7. NICHOLAS EZO WORCLACHIE. 1
8 KAFUI NYASORGBOR. 8
9. SYLVANUS AMEDORME. 2
10. NO IDEA. 2
WUDOABA
1. TEACHER JOSEPH NYAVI. 8
2. MAMA ABLA DZIFA GOMASHIE.20
3. FOGA NUKUNU. 20
4. ELOLO WHITE. 9
5. NICHOLAS EZO WORCLACHIE. 1
6. PARKA. 2
7. SALOMEY. 1
8. A CERTAIN WOMAN. 2
AGBOZUME
1. TEACHER JOSEPH NYAVI. 10
2. MAMA ABLA DZIFA GOMASHIE.16
3. FOGA NUKUNU. 14
4. KWAKU AMEDUME. 8
5. CAROLINA KUDAH. 17
6. ELOLO WHITE. 12
7. NICHOLAS EZO WORCLACHIE. 12
8. JOHNSON KPORHA. 8
9. MAXWELL KWASHIE. 6
KLIKOR
1. TEACHER JOSEPH NYAVI. 8
2. MAMA ABLA DZIFA GOMASHIE.18
3. FOGA NUKUNU. 15
4. KWAKU AMEDUME. 8
5. ELOLO WHITE. 8
6. CAROLINA KUDAH. 14
7. NICHOLAS EZO WORCLACHIE. 15
8. JOHNSON KPORHA. 6
9. MAXWELL KWASHIE. 12
BLEKUSU
1. TEACHER JOSEPH NYAVI. 9
2. MAMA ABLA DZIFA GOMASHIE.18
3. FOGA NUKUNU. 10
4. KWAKU AMEDUME. 12
5. CAROLINA KUDAH. 6
6. ELOLO WHITE. 4
7. JOHNSON KPORHA. 6
popularity test rate
1. Mama Abla Dzifa Gomashie 82%
2. Foga Nukunu 72%
3. Teacher Joseph Nyavi 57%
4. Carolina Kudah 40%
5. Elolo White 29%
6. Kwaku Amedume 27%
7. Nicholas Ezo Worclachie 16%
8. Johnson Kporha 11%
9. Maxwell Kwashie 10%
10. Kafui Nyasorgbor 4%
11. No idea 2.7%
12. Parka 1%
13 A certain woman 1%
14. Salomey 0.5%
OBSERVATIONS
The research team observed that the three most popular aspirants started their ‘submarine’ campaign very early hence their high rate of popularity. Some already have posters. Others use festive occasions to get the attention of the populace.
Elolo white who is a contemplator surprisingly had 29% awareness rate. Messer Nicholas Ezo Worclachie , Kafui Nyasorgbor & Sylvanus Amedorme who are political juggernauts in Ketu-South politics will have to also adopt some level of subtle campaign to keep their awareness rate a bit high.
Parka and Salomey are new entrants whose identities are yet to be known.
Surprisingly some female respondents could not mention Mama Abla Dzifa Gomashie and Carolina Kudah names. These two women contestants have serious work to do when nominations are opened.
Despite the ‘Nicodemus’ campaign strategy employed by some aspirants, 2.7% of the respondents said they are oblivious of the names of some prospective aspirants.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Despite the National Executive Committee is yet to issue guidelines for the conduct of parliamentary elections as stipulated in article 41, we recommend that the real contenders all start some awareness creation to put them in a pole position for the job but this must be devoid of excessive spending.
We also recommend that the real contenders start building a war chest towards the opening of nomination and filing in order to have their messages being heard by all.
Again, we also suggest that the aspirants must guide their communicators in order not to mar the peaceful coexistence that has since been there. The communicators should do issue based marketing of their candidates devoid of insults and personal attacks.
CONCLUSION
The result of the findings is a testament of how the plebs of Ketu-South take politics serious. The result really revealed how popular are the aspirants in Ketu-South. Though some of the respondents were unwilling to respond to the Research Team, but we managed to win their trust.
We hope to get more support in future research works to enable the Scorpion Research Team carryout more intensive research.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We sincerely want to acknowledge the following;
1. Our families
2. The aspirants
3. The respondents
4. NDC( KETU SOUTH)
EDWIN KWAME AMEMASOR,
SCORPION RESEARCH TEAM LEADER
Source: AwakeNewsOnline.com | Efo Korsi Senyo