Madam Gifty Klenam, former Chief Executive of the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) and former Member of Parliament for Lower-West Akim has joined the race for parliament as an independent candidate to wrest the seat.

She first contested the Lower-West Akim seat on the ticket of the (NPP) in 2008 and was re-elected in 2012 but lost her third bid in the party's primaries to Mr.

Eyiah Kyei-Bafuour, who represented the NPP in parliament in 2016.

She became the first female MP for the area and the only MP to have been elected for two consecutive terms in the constituency's history.