Chiefs in the Atwima Kwanwoma constituency of the Ashanti region have denied media reports suggesting that they have declared support for the candidature of the NPP flagbearer Nana Akufo-Addo ahead of the December polls.
Reports are rife that the chiefs, numbering 58, pledged allegiance to the three-time flagbearer as he visited the area to campaign as part of his Ashanti regional campaign tour.
Leader of of the chiefs Otumfuo Mpaboahene, Nana Yaw Owusu, is reported to have accused the Mahama-led administration of neglecting them because of their perceived loyalty to the NPP.
But speaking to Nii Arday Clegg on the Morning Starr Thursday, Nana Yaw Owusu said the claim of their collective support for Akufo-Addo is not true.
“ We didn’t come together to endorse Akufo-Addo as they are claiming and it is not true that we said President Mahama has neglected us. What we said was that because of our perceived association with the Danqua-Busia-Dombo tradition people tend to think that we support the NPP. So we only told Akufo-Addo to help fix our roads if he becomes President,” he explained.
Meanwhile, the Catholic Bishops Conferenec has in a statement urged chiefs to desist from politics.
“We entreat our kings and chiefs to protect the integrity of their stools and skins by refraining from meddling in partisan politics to the displeasure of their subjects as if to say that the party they associate with or endorse is representative of their subjects’ choice as well.
“Politicians and traditional leaders must work to foster peace and seek the integral development of Ghanaians rather than to divide them,” the statement said.
Source: starrfmonline.com
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God will send angels to endorse Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo. The battle is the Lords.
This is what president Mahama has been saying, there cabals in the media who always want to skew everything in favour of NPP but trust in God all their diabolical behaviours will never work. Mahama reigns.
nobody taa wo doooo. Ungrateful beings, saying president has done nothing for you.
Shame NPP
good news all n,p, supporters all over the world and all ghana people all over the universe, these are the plans nana addo dankwah akuufu addo have for all the people of ghana come 20176 when he become president of ghanand he will be coem becouse ghan apeope want him not mahama, he will give ,1. free education for all ghana people all over the country from nursery to university, 2, three square meals a day for every ghana person,3 job for all youths in the whole country, 4. allowances for all children and old people in ghana, 5. scholarship for all poor people children, 6.adult education for all ghana people, 7 houses for all ghana people.8., buses for all ghana people,9. monies in every one pocket,10. reduce prices of every thing in ghana, make ghanaians happy, enjoy ghana, make ghana people proud and pround country, make ghana peole love ghana, respect each other, collect all stolen monies and give them back to the poor people, send all state criminals to jail/ prison for 200 years and collect al stolen houses, cars, monies, jobs and give them back to ghana people, vote 100% for nana addo to make ghana a happy place, ghana is a rich country , ghana people are intelligent people so they should not be poor, mahama has made ghana peole poor, vote him out , he is a diasaster, and have failed the whole country,,act now to save ghana, from ghana people