Director of Communications for the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), George Ayisi has urged the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to use all means possible to get the party’s Ashanti Regional Chairman, Bernard Antwi-Bosiako to appear before the Asanteman Traditional Council.
Mr. Ayisi said the invitation by the Council is a harmless one which the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the party, Chairman Wontumi must not avoid.
He stressed that the party’s delay in addressing the matter will exacerbate the situation and suggested that if possible, the party should produce Chairman Wontumi to the Council on Thursday, January 25.
“I think that we should go and do the needful… It’s a harmless invitation. I think that we should do everything possible we can to get Chairman Wontumi to go and appear before the Council because he is an Asante, put the party aside and every subject of Otumfuo is accountable to him,” he said on TV3’s New Day, Tuesday.
‘Produce Wontumi even if he is on a sick bed’ – Otumfuo’s Chief Linguist tells NPP
Wontumi has been dragged to the seat of the Asantehene for allegedly passing unsavoury comments about Asanteman.
At a meeting held between some leaders of the party and the Asanteman Council, Otumfuo‘s Chief Linguist, Nana Kofi Owusu ordered the party to bring Wontumi within one week.
But the General Secretary of the NPP, Justin Frimpong Kodua together with the national organiser, Henry Nana Boakye as well as some regional executives of the party pleaded on behalf of the Regional Chairman.
However, conspicuously missing was Bernard Antwi Boasiako. Mr Kodua told the chiefs that Wontumi was indisposed “Nananom, we could not come with Chairman Wontumi because he has not been well.”
Menahwile, the party has urged its members to immediately cease any comment that will affect the relationship between Manhyia the seat of the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II and the party.