Chairman Wontumi has opened up on how he was left hurt and abused by the decision of members of his party to prevent some representatives from the Tertiary Students Confederacy (TESCON) from voting during their Ashanti Regional Conference.
The Ashanti Regional Chairman for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) took a swipe at the individuals behind the decision noting that “for someone to say he established TESCON so he wouldn’t let them vote hurt me.”
Members of the students’ wing of the New Patriotic Party, TESCON were prevented from participating the party’s elections which was held at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium.
Without mentioning names, Chairman Wontumi stated on Wontumi TV that the person, who prevented the students once, had issues in his constituency and it took him (Chairman Wontumi) to resolve it.
He therefore felt betrayed and labeled the decision to prevent the student an abusive one.
Chairman Wontumi insisted that any decision with regards to how elections are held in Ashanti region, has to come from the National Executive Committee (NEC).
“In Ashanti region, it is the NEC that takes every decision when it comes to an election but all of a sudden, they formed a committee that was taking charge of the election”, Chairman Wontumi said to highlight the machination against him during the election.
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Delegates in the Ashanti Region converged at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi to elect new executives to run the affairs of the party in the region for the next four years.
About 950 delegates cast their ballot to elect nine officers at various levels to man the party ahead of the 2024 general elections.
The positions which were contested were that of chairman, which had five contestants but was reduced to a two-horse race between incumbent, Chairman Wontumi and Odeneho Kwaku Appiah, popularly known as COKA.
Robert Asare Bediako former Asokwa Constituency Chairman, Kwabena Owusu Aduomi, former MP for Ejisu and Oheneba Adum Bawuah are the other contestants in the chairmanship race.