Atwima Mponua Assembly, Cadres root for Sakina Oforiwaa as DCE

Members of the Atwima Mponua District Assembly have proposed Madam Sakina Oforiwaa for the consideration of the President, John Dramani Mahama, for the position of the District Chief Executive.

The position of the Concerned Assembly members is explained in the fact that the 37-year-old is preferred to the other two candidates shortlisted by the party for the position.

The proponents, numbering about 40 members from the 56-member Assembly, including the Presiding Member, Prince Nkrumah Boateng, hold the view that Sakina Oforiwaa, a professional Teacher, with management skills, is best qualified to represent the President in the district.

This is based on her role in championing the ideals of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Atwima Mponua Constituency, through team work.

She was a Branch Secretary in the Atwima Mponua Constituency from 2000 to 2008 and served as a Constituency Campaign Team Member and Assembly Member (Government Appointee 2009- 2016), during which period she served on the Finance & Administration Sub-Committee, Social Services Sub-Committee, District Health Implementation and the Environmental Sub-Committee Member.

She was the WESCO TEIN President (2012-2013), the Regional Women’s Wing Communication Member, NDC Ashanti Region (2012 to Date) and the Atwima Mponua Constituency Parliamentary Candidate for the 2020 elections.

Sakina Oforiwaa is a Regional Communication Team Member, Regional Women’s Wing Committee Member and Regional Women’s Wing Financial Committee member from 2023 to Date as well as Constituency Executive Member (2022 to Date), Polling Station Agent 2004 and 2008, NDC Atwima Mponua Constituency (2004 to 2008), besides her teaching career with the Ghana Education Service at Adobewura from 2011 to date.

Addressing a press conference at Kufuor Camp last Friday to advocate for Sakina’s nomination, Prince Nkrumah Boateng, Presiding Member and Assembly member for Bayerebon Number III, mentioned the role and contributions of Sakina to the growth of the party in the constituency as mind boggling, having personally procured 30 motorbikes at GHC390,000 each for the 2024 campaign.

Sakina Oforiwaa has personally donated GHC500 each for those who contested for the Assembly Member elections in the name of NDC in 2024 and donated GHC2,000 to support the limited registration organised by the Electoral Commission, as well as donating 70 bags of rice to support the feeding of party agents during the 2024 election.

She also complemented the efforts of her husband, as constituency chairman, to donate 100 packs of cutlass to all the branch executives and sponsored the 2020 campaign with four cars.

Other donations included 5,000 litres of fuel for 2020 campaign – GH¢300,000 for 2020 campaign and financing party activities and programmes in the Constituency, as well as printing 4,000 ‘T’ shirts at GH¢200,000 for the 2024 campaign.

He described their idol as development oriented, supportive, affable, and dedicated to inclusive leadership and a unifier who could project the President’s Reset Agenda.

According to the Petitioners, Sakina Oforiwaa is a woman of proven integrity and committed to the cause of development, which qualities have endeared her to traditional authorities, youth groups, civil society organisations and the broader community.

Prince Boateng said the delay in nominating a DCE for the district has stifled development as the year runs into the second quarter with no political leadership in the District, and called on the President to name a nominee, preferably Sakina Oforiwaa, to speed up with the government’s development agenda for the district.

The concerned Assembly members and 40 signatories have since May 9, 2025 petitioned   President Mahama about their collective and unwavering support for Sakina Oforiwaa and to use his prerogative powers to that effect.

He argued that her (Sakina) selection would give meaning to the Affirmative Action Law and the President’s promise to appoint about 30% of his appointees as women.

Meanwhile, executives of the Young Cadres Movement in the Atwima Mponua constituency have also corroborated the position of the 40 Assembly members and pleaded with the President to choose Sakina Oforiwaa to champion the development of the district and further grow the party.

According to the group, Sakina Oforiwaa has been instrumental in the NDC electioneering campaign and sustained ideals of the party at the Local level.

Spokespersons Isaac Ampaabeng (constituency communication director), Richard Dapaah (Co-ordinator) and Kwabena Darko, alias Mayenga (Operations Director) at a separate press conference at Anyinamso mentioned that Sakina Oforiwaa had sacrificed a lot and used her own resources to cater for the wellbeing of party activists.

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