Lower Manya Krobo MCE To Resign?

The most heated campaign message currently being fanned in the Lower Manya Krobo Constituency of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), ahead of this month’s parliamentary primaries, is whether or not it was appropriate for the deputy Eastern Regional Minister, Hon. Samuel Nuertey Ayertey, to have accepted his nomination by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, at a time when the same president had sacked another son of the soil, Mr. Boakye Agyarko, from his cabinet.

The diabolic propagation, which had gone on for weeks under the close watch of party leaders and government appointees, suggests that just as the former deputy eastern regional minister and MP for Upper Manya Krobo constituency, Hon. Joseph Tetteh, resigned his position (allegedly in support of Mr. Agyarko), Hon. Ayertey too should have turned down his nomination by the President (to replace the then outgoing Hon. Tetteh). At least, an audio making the rounds in the constituency is proof of that agenda.

A few days after your authoritative NEW PUBLISHER reported and exposed the plot, which was just the tip of a looming iceberg, several residents of the constituency are fuming with rage.

According to them, if resignation was the most appropriate means of showing solidarity with Boakye Agyarko, why was it that the Municipal Chief Executive of the area, Simon Kweku Tetteh, who was also appointed by the same President, still remained at post without any attacks from the same group?

The youth, who spoke to the paper on condition of anonymity (and for fear of being attacked), have argued that the call to show solidarity with the former Energy Minister, if at all it holds water, should have been directed across board, and not specifically targeted at one person.

“What is bad for the goose is bad for the gander. Is the position of MCE also not a nomination by the president? Why are they targeting the deputy minister alone, if their reasons are genuine? All these are going on in the full glare of party leaders and elders, yet none of them is saying anything. Are they truly supporting the President”? One of them asked.

A lady bemoaned: “I wonder who is behind this nonsense. If every political appointee in our district is being asked to resign from government position, because of one person, then God have mercy on President Akufo-Addo. We are patiently waiting for the day our MCE, Simon Tetteh, too will be asked to resign”.

The paper’s political desk has observed that Lower Manya Krobo, one of the few constituencies in the Eastern region that nearly made history for the Danquah-Busia-Dombo political tradition in the 2016 general election, is gradually slipping back into the full grips of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). While there is relative peace in the NDC in the constituency, the NPP had suddenly become a hotbed of controversy, thanks to the suspected machinations of certain powerful unseen hands.

It was obvious, immediately after the 2016 elections, that the NPP was the clear alternative in the constituency, but whether the same can be said today will depend on how political issues are handled.

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