PRESIDENT'S DIRECTIVE HAILED

The Dean of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives in the Ashanti region, Kaakyire Oppong Kyekyeku, has described President John Mahama’s directive to MMDCEs to defer their ongoing academic programmes as timely and must be adhered to by all the MMDCEs involved. 

According to him, the MMDCEs are at the beck and call of the President on whose authority they are holding public office. 

Speaking in an interview with Ashanti Today in Kumasi, Mr. Oppong Kyekyeku noted also that the President’s directive has come at a time that both the government and ruling party are preparing feverishly towards this year’s Presidential and Parliamentary polls considered as a make or break for any of the two major political parties. 

Mr. Oppong Kyekyeku, who is the Afigya Kwabre District Chief Executive, said the directive does not imply a dereliction of duty on the part of the MMDCEs concerned. 

He explained "It is rather in recognition of the fact that the government headed by President Mahama needs to work very hard to justify why Ghanaians must retain it in power after the elections."

Mr. Oppong Kyekyeku noted that this year’s elections will make history at all cost in Ghana’s democratic dispensation for which reason the stakes are very high and that nothing should be left to chance. 

 "The NDC could be the only political party to win three successive national elections with President Mahama becoming the longest serving President in the fourth Republic if the NDC wins the election", Mr. Oppong Kyekyeku emphasized.

On the other hand, Nana Akuffo Addo stands to become the first opposition candidate to unseat a sitting President in an election.

 Mr. Oppong Kyekyeku therefore advised his colleague MMDCEs to recognize the enormity of the electioneering and the need for all hands to be on deck to secure victory for the President and the NDC during the polls.