The Daffiama/Bussie/Issa district is one of the youngest districts curved from the then Nadowli district. The district has one constituency which was formally called the Nadowli East constituency. Since 1992, the constituency parliamentary seat has been occupied by the National Democratic Congress party.
We have barely two(2) months to the much awaited 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections and one of the constituency of much interest in the Upper West region is the Daffiama/Bussie/Issa constituency of which a medical doctor, Dr Sebastian Sandaare of the NDC battles with a legal practitioner, Lawyer Charles Lwanga Bagonluri of the opposition NPP.
Will the NPP be able to unseat the NDC, which they tried for the past 24 years?
Dr Sandaare, a young and intelligent medical doctor whom upon completion declined seeking greener pastures in overseas or cities but decided to work in a very remote district like Nadowli where he has spent most of his life as a medical doctor working in the district and the region at large.
Currently, Dr Sandaare is the medical director of the Lawra district hospital and also doubled as the district director of health services in the Lawra district, upon seeing another way of helping his people, he decided to seek the mandate to become an assemblyman for the Daffiama electoral area which he had unopposed up to today and also served as the first presiding member of the Daffiama/Bussie/Issa district, a position he served to the admiration of all in the district and beyond. This therefore made him to know the problems of our young district and therefore quest to contribute to the district to alleviate the alarming poverty in the district.
Few are such men who will use their salary in sponsoring the youth right from second cycle to tertiary level, a very simply and kind hearted young man who is always searching for the youth who has keen interest in health to sponsor. No wonder in his posters and T-shirts, it is boldly written, “investing in people for rural development”.
It is an undisputable fact that due to his loyalist and love for the district, he organizes medical doctors and nurses to the district to provide free medical services to the people at the end of each year.
Unlike Dr Sandaare who has always being with his people, his contingent Lawyer Lwanga of the NPP who hails from the district cum constituency but was only known in the district during the last NPP primaries when he was seeking the mandate to lead the party to the December elections.
Lawyer Charles Lwanga Bagonluri is one of the best legal practitioners in the upper west region and also a lecturer at the University for Development Studies, Wa campus. Lawyer Lwanga has spent most of his lifestyle outside the constituency and never bothered to spend little time with the poor or youth in the constituency, which simply describes him as not having the poor constituency at heart. No wonder he has his campaign team from a group of people that are not residing in the constituency and has little information about the needs of the constituents.
Many has heard a lot about Dr Sandaare but have not seen him and might be over expecting him, it is not by exaggeration but he is simply a hardworking, humble and approachable young man who always loves to be with his people all the times. Unlike any other politicians who are very proud and feels too pompous to relate with constituents, Dr Sandaare always takes pride in his constituents. No wonder his name has become a household topic in the constituency, both children and aged are using his name like a song.
I urge all constituents to vote and vote for our own, the man with character and integrity, the man that has invested in people, the man who has worked tirelessly for the development of our young district. He is the only individual that we have the trust in to develop our constituency. Let’s not be deceived by any other person who only come around at the time he wants to be in parliament, the NPP has nothing meaningful for our constituency. We have a very variable candidate who has invested in us as a medical doctor, what will he not do when given the mandate to parliament?
Dr Sandaare is the man to be voted for come 7th December, a vote for him is a vote for development.
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