Former Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ayensuano Constituency in the Eastern Region, on the ticket of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Samuel Ayeh-Paye has picked nomination forms to contest the seat again.
The Ayensuano parliamentary seat was snatched from the ruling NPP, by the opposition National Democratic Congress, NDC’s, Teddy Safori Addi.
The current NDC MP defeated then-incumbent, Samuel Ayeh Paye in the 2020 parliamentary elections with 19,211 representing 47.3% as Ayeh-Paye scored 18,97 representing 46.7 out of the total registered Votes cast of 54,191.
On Wednesday, some of the delegates in the constituency stormed the constituency office at Kraboa Coaltar to pick up the nomination forms on his behalf to contest the upcoming parliamentary primaries.
According to the grassroots and the delegates, the current MP Teddy Safori Addi of the National Democratic Congress, NDC, has exhibited a high level of incompetence and the constituents want him (Ayeh Paye) back.
They lamented that they regretted voting for the current MP, adding that the people want Ayeh-Paye back.
Ayeh-Paye in his previous encounter after losing the seat, said his track record is there for all to see and without his influence and work, Ayensuano would not have had a district.
According to him, he was not scared of any contest, and for him, he would defeat anyone in any contest since the people have seen his worth and the value, he brought to them when he was MP.
He has also noted that the current MP must learn the skill of lobbying to bring development to the people so their poor road network is repaired.
Samuel Ayeh-Paye who was born on Thursday, 17 May 1973, and hails from Aburi, Eastern Region, was a member of the 5th, 6th, and 7th parliament of the 4th Republic from 2009 to 2021.
He has an HND at Accra Polytechnic (now Accra Technical University) in Accra, Ghana. He also had an MVM training from Accra Technical Training Center (ATTC) in Accra, Ghana, and a certificate from the Indian Institute of Management Studies in India.
From 1999 to 2000, He was a transport manager in the Accra Metropolitan Assembly working in Waste Management Department. He became a workshop manager from 2003 to 2005 at Metro Mass Transit in Ghana. From there he became an assistant technical manager from 2005 to 2008 at DVLA in Ghana.
He has been a former DVLA officer, and he has spoken in Parliament on the need for better road safety measures.
In March 2017, he called for an elected Upper Chamber to replace the Council of State. He is married with four children.
