Pressure mounts on Wontumi to resign …after agenda 47/47 failed

THE ASHANTI Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, is under pressure to resign from his position.

Nicknamed as ‘Wontumi’ in political circles, the NPP chairman prior to the 2020 polls, vowed to resign if he failed to secure all 47 parliamentary seats for the NPP.

“I will resign from my position if the NPP fails to win all the 47 parliamentary seats in the Ashanti Region during the 2020 polls”, Wontumi stated during a live radio interview.

He added that “Agenda 47/47, launched by the NPP in the Ashanti Region, to win all parliamentary seats in the region was possible and nothing could stop that great agenda”.

Interestingly, at the time Wontumi confidently made the bold statement, the Ashanti Regional NPP was controlling 44 out of the 47 parliamentary seats in the Ashanti Region.

After the 2020 elections, not only did the NPP failed woefully to add a single seat to its 44 seats, the ruling political party also lost two seats to reduce its seats to 42.

Since the 2020 elections outcome was announced by the Electoral Commission (EC) last Wednesday, there has been enormous pressure on Wontumi to resign in Kumasi.

Some party members that spoke on the various radio stations in Kumasi, have told Wontumi to do the honourable thing by quietly exiting from his position.

According to them, not only did Wontumi failed to attain his ambitious target, the NPP also performed abysmally in the
Ashanti Region, which is the NPPs known stronghold.

They said Wontumi’s popularity and usefulness for the NPP now belonged to history therefore he should leave office for another party man to lead the NPP to election 2024.