The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), says it is poised to secure victory in the upcoming by-election in the Assin North Constituency in the Central Region.

Parliament on Tuesday declared the Assin North seat vacant, following the Supreme Court's ruling that sitting MP, James Gyakye Quayson of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), was not fit to serve as MP.

Speaking to JoyNews on the back of this development, the NPP's Director of Communications, Richard Ahiagbah, said the party has put relevant measures in place to snatch the seat from the NDC.

According to him, the party has resolved all the issues that made it lose the seat to the NDC in 2020, and will win the upcoming by-election just like it won the recent by-election in Kumawu.

"We're going to go to Assin and make our case to the good people of Assin North, who we know are supportive of the New Patriotic Party.

"And I can guarantee as I said earlier, the NDC's false sense that they're going to win this election will be manifest just like it did in Kumawu recently.

"We'll win that election rather convincingly. Like the process we began in Kumawu, our march to 2024 will continue in Assin North", he told JoyNews Paa Kwesi Schandorf.

Meanwhile, the New Patriotic Party says it will hold its primary to elect a candidate for the upcoming by-election on June 7, 2023.

In a statement on Tuesday, the party said nominations for the primary will be opened today [Wednesday], May 31 and end on June 1, 2023.

Ahead of the upcoming by-election, a Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress, Mustapha Gbande, says the current state of the economy will be a huge decider in the outcome of the upcoming by-election in Assin North.

Speaking on Newsnite on Tuesday, he indicated that the failure of the NPP to tackle the current economic challenges will lead to their doom in the contest.

Mr Gbande added that the NDC is ready to back James Gyakye Quayson as its candidate for the election, despite the earlier Supreme Court ruling which declared him as unfit to occupy the office.

The Assin North Constituency was created in 2012 when then Assin Central Constituency was split into two as Assin North and Assin Central. It was held by the NDC in 2012, taken by the NPP in 2016 and won by the NDC in 2020 again.