Chiefs in the Effia-Kwesimintsim in the Western Region are angry over a news report suggesting they are persuading the former Member of Parliament Joseph Mensah to contest the next primaries of the New Patriotic Party.
Describing the report as “fake, barbaric and unscrupulous” the chiefs insist they will not be party or used as “breeding grounds for political mediocrity”.
As vanguards of community development, the chiefs in a statement jointly signed by Nana Ekra Kojo IV and Nana Egya Kwamina XI chiefs of Anajihene and Apremdohene respectively said they are happy to work the current MP Dr Prince Armah, who for now is the choice of the people.
The statement follows a news report on Ghananest.com suggesting that Chiefs of Ahanta within Effia-Kwesimintsim municipality (EKMA) have asked the former Member of Parliament for Kwesimintsim, Joseph Mensah to come back and contest when the party opens nominations for parliamentary primaries.
The report further suggested that the chiefs eulogized the former MP for some development projects he championed whilst in office.
The report appears to have angered the Ahanta Chiefs prompting the release of a statement.
“We wish to disassociate ourselves from this fake news and its content entirely. We the Chiefs are not breeding grounds for political mediocrity; we are here for all manners of persons except political warmongers. We entreat each and everyone to discard this barbaric and unscrupulous information that a certain group wants to taint the image of the Ahanta Chiefs.
We again wish to make it known without any provocation that we will not sell the good will of our people to any politician, we are guided by their choice and happy to work and cooperate with same,” the statement said.
Mr Joseph Mensah was elected in 2016 to represent Kwesimintsim in parliament but lost the party’s parliamentary primaries in June 2020 to Dr Prince Hamid Armah, who went on to win an overwhelming mandate in the general elections in December.
