A communication team member of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Gabriella Tetteh, has described the NPP candidate in the Assin North by-election as unfit to occupy such a high office.

In her view, Mr. Opoku lacks basic leadership traits, and seeking to represent his constituency in Parliament is out of place.

“The man was asked to grant an interview, he can’t speak in public. I don’t know what is so special about him that anybody would want him to be a parliamentarian on their ticket,” she told Annie Afua Ampofo on Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana on Monday, July 3.

“You can’t compare the personality of Gyakye Quayson and Charles Opoku,” Gabriella Tetteh exclaimed.

“They [the media] put a microphone in front of Charles Opoku and ask if ‘What does this victory mean to you? He said ‘nothing, nothing’,” she cited an example to buttress her point.

“Terrible public speaker” Charles Opoku is unqualified to be a parliamentarian – Gabriella Tetteh#BossPlayer pic.twitter.com/6g9SYHj9uJ

— Bernard Ralph Adams (@theladralph) July 3, 2023

Madam Gabriella Tetteh also intimated that Mr. Opoku wanted to run for office on the ticket of the NDC but his request was rejected.

“This gentleman [Charles Opoku] approached the NDC executives in the constituency that he wanted to contest for parliament and he was expecting that we set aside Gyakye Quayson and make him our parliamentary candidate,” she divulged.

“I want to applaud the NDC constituency executives in Assin North. Aside pulling off a very great election and from the very onset standing with honorable James Gyakye Quayson and not allowing this gentleman’s [Mr. Opoku] bid to be an aspirant for the NDC not even seeing the light of day,” the NDC Central Region Communication Officer stated.

Following the Tuesday, June 27, 2023, Assin North by-election, James Gyakye Quayson was declared winner.

He won with 17,245 votes, representing 57.56 percent of the total votes cast, to beat Charles Opoku of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and Bernice Enyonam Sefenu of the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG).

The Assin North seat was declared vacant after the Supreme Court decided on May 17 that Gyakye Quayson’s name be removed from Parliament’s records.