Tema-Ghana, Dec. 20, – Mr. Joseph Korto, the National Dean of Presiding Members and the longest-serving assemblyman in Ghana, has lost the district-level election after 20 years of uninterrupted service.
Mr. Korto lost to Mr. Albert Nii Kpakpo Mensah by 78 votes, as he polled 500 while the elected candidate polled 578 to snatch the seat from him.
The dreams of the national dean of PMs, who doubles as the presiding member for the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA), to represent the people of the low-cost electoral area were dashed after the fiercely contested elections.
Prior to the election, he said “majority of the area members and the youth came to me to go again; it is not true that one of the candidates is poised to unseat me.”
However, some electorates who said they were tired of having the same assemblyman for two decades made it a point to whip interest among the electorates to go out in their numbers to vote for a new assemblyman.
