Wontumi has asked Bawumia to reject Napo as running mate – Dr Amoako Baah alleges
Dr. Richard Baah Amoako, a former head of the Political Science Department at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has claimed that the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Ashanti Regional Chairman, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, alias Chairman Wontumi, is impeding the selection of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s running mate.
Dr. Amoako Baah claims that Wontumi is obstructing Dr. Bawumia’s desire to pick energy minister Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, commonly known as Napo, to run with him in the 2024 presidential election.
On Thursday, January 4, 2024, the claims were made during an appearance on Onua TV’s Pae Muka show.
“Bawumia said he needed more time to get the leader, the party gave him more time and I don’t know if he is done with his work. When it came that he wanted to appoint Napo, Wontumi said he wouldn’t agree, so it has become a big issue.
“So, unless we ask Wontumi to tell us why, so far, what I have heard is that he says he won’t agree and support that, he wants somebody else and now he is the Ashanti regional chairman, so when he says something, it has to be respected…this is what is going on, the chaos has become worse,” he said.