Former Municipal Chief Executive [MCE] for Ejisu/Juaben in the Ashanti Region, Afrifa Yamoah Ponkoh has described the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako alias Chairman Wontumi as a hardworking and an operational chairman.
According to him, he is the caliber of Regional Chairman the National Democratic Congress (NDC) must emulate.
“I’m worried our people see Wontumi as a joke; they have no idea of what the young rich guy can do with money. He Wontumi facilitated the removal of Kojo Bonsu in KMA and also made sure the assembly members of Ejusu Juaben oppose my second appointment as Municipal Chief Executive by former president John Dramani Mahama. Must we joke with such a person,” he told Kwame Afrifa-Mensah on Happy FM’s Epa Hao Daben show.
“I am therefore using this medium to beg the NDC not to take lightly claims he used money to influence the outcome of our parliamentary elections. Wontumi is really working and we need to be cautious. I don’t underrate that working and he is a person to fear. Wontumi is a threat to the NDC. He will do anything if he vows to do it”. He warned.
Chairman Wontumi had claimed that he influenced the outcome of the NDC Parliamentary primaries with monies that were either paid directly to delegates or key persons within the NDC who subsequently handed these monies to delegates ahead of the primaries.