{"id":92470,"date":"2025-09-02T22:41:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T22:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=92470"},"modified":"2025-09-02T22:41:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T22:41:51","slug":"the-people-heard-us-and-they-delivered-victory-bernard-baidoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=92470","title":{"rendered":"The people heard us, and they delivered victory \u2013 Bernard Baidoo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bernard Baidoo, the lawyer who won the closely contested Akwatia by-election on Tuesday, says the outcome proves that the people understood his message and acted on it. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe people listened to the message we gave them, and we saw that they had really imbibed. They gave us a hope, some hope of a sort, which hope has resulted in what we see today,\u201d he said after the declaration.<\/p>\n

Mr Baidoo insisted that confidence was never in short supply. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve always been very confident. We\u2019ve been in this game for a while. If you are in it and you are losing, you will know, except maybe if you don\u2019t want to be honest yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n

He explained that his campaign was grounded in clarity and focus. <\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, I\u2019ve always said, when you are going into such a contest, there are a lot of things you will hear, but I don\u2019t focus on tangential. The focus is on the main ball. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy focus is to have my message delivered. The people accept it, and then they take it up and work to make sure, eh, victory is delivered.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mr Baidoo brushed off past controversies, saying distraction could have derailed the campaign. <\/p>\n

\u201cSome of these comments, if you are not careful, you will be swayed by them, and then you go outside the main target and then be dealing with unnecessary stuff. Elections were held, and we have the results.\u201d<\/p>\n

Looking ahead, the new MP tied Akwatia\u2019s prospects to its rich mining history. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve always said that you see Akwatia\u2019s name has always been with regard to mining, you can\u2019t take away the mining. We only have to do it lawfully. That\u2019s what we\u2019re going to work on,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He pointed to progress already underway at the Ghana Consolidated Diamonds site. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhere we are now is a GCD property just before John Mahama came to power; the place was in darkness, if you would recall. We did the 2024 collation here, and we had to put on some solar panels and all the lamps. <\/p>\n

\u201cToday, it wasn\u2019t because of the by-elections, though; this was even done before. Today, we have electricity. It is the first step towards getting GCD back on track, which can employ 1000s of people. There are other things we are looking at.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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