The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has postponed a meeting to elect a Presiding Member scheduled for today (Friday) September 30 to Tuesday October 4.
The decision is to give the assembly ample time to make further consultations after it failed for the fifth time to elect a Presiding Member.
According to Class News’ regional correspondent Hafiz Tijani, Friday’s meeting has also been cancelled because there is no judge to swear in an elected Presiding Member.
Courts in the Ashanti Region will work without judges on Friday as all of them are attending a conference in Accra. A decision was, however, arrived at to postpone the meeting after deliberations with management and a section of Assembly Members.
The Assembly has been split as supporters of the candidates for the position took entrenched positions to ensure their preferred candidate got elected.
In the five elections conducted so far, none of the candidates could garner the constitutionally mandated two-thirds majority of votes cast.
In their last attempt to elect a Presiding Member on Tuesday September 27, Adumhene, Nana Baffour Adjei Kesse, stepped down to allow Nana Kofi Senya contest the slot as an unopposed candidate but he failed to get the needed number of votes.
Fresh nominations were opened. The three new contenders are Abraham Boadi, Assembly Member for Ridge-Nhyiaso Electoral Area; Obeng Poku, Assembly Member for Bremang Central Electoral Area and Adusei Bonsu Micheal, Assembly Member for Asafo Dadieso Aba Electoral Area.
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
