The incumbent Member of Parliament for Nkwanta South in the Volta region, Gershon Gbediame has been defeated by businessman, Geoffrey Kini in the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) primaries held on Saturday.

Geoffrey Kini won with 7,637 votes, as against Mr. Gbediame's paltry 591 votes out of the 12,265 valid votes cast.

Kini’s win has brought to an end the five-term reign of the incumbent MP, who has been an MP since January 1997.

The three other contestants, Dr Felix Anebor, Solomon Bagme, and Narayana Osei Nyarko Charles secured 2,342, 1,626 and 69 votes respectively in the election.

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The primary was earlier clouded with confusion over the credibility of the voters’ register. The candidates, the constituency executives and the Electoral Commission all produced different registers for the elections. The impasse delayed voting for almost three hours.

The Deputy Volta Regional Minister, Francis Ganyaglo, however intervened and all the five aspirants agreed to use the register presented by the EC.

Armed security officials were deployed to the area to maintain calm among delegates.