[ 2011-04-15 ]

Ashanti Zongo NPP supporters not happy with Chief
Supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in
Zongo communities in the Ashanti Region, have
expressed their anger over a declaration by the
President of the Council of Zongo Chiefs that
people in these areas were all for the ruling
National Democratic Congress (NDC).

Chief Ibrahim Ahmed was reported to have stated at
a meeting with President John Evans Atta Mills at
the Kumasi Central Mosque on Tuesday that people
in the Zongo were fully behind him and that they
would vote to return him (President Mills) to
power in 2012.

A press statement signed by Alhaji S.M. Shariff, a
former Regional Chairman of the NPP, however took
umbrage at this and demanded a retraction.

It said Chief Ibrahim could certainly not have
been speaking for all the people in the Zongo
since in Kumasi alone, there were more than
100,000 NPP members.

The statement said they had everything to believe
that the Chief only wanted to please President
Mills simply because he had been made a Government
appointee of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly
(KMA).

Source - GNA

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