NPP backtracks on promise to have MMDCEs elected

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In the lead up to the 2016 Ghana elections, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in its 2016 manifesto promised to “oversee the direct election of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) within 24 months of election into office, to coincide with the next District Assembly elections in 2019.”

However, Deputy Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Mr O.B Amoah, while speaking to the media yesterday, stated emphatically that, the election of MMDCEs will certainly not take place in 2018. He alluded that for the MMDCE elections to be possible,” there is a need for a referendum to be held or Article 55 (3) of the Constitution amended to make the position a partisan one”.

“It is not 2018; I don’t know why this thing keeps coming up and indeed if we want to go the full hog and make the election partisan, it means we should even do a referendum to amend article 55 (3) so that we can get MMDCEs elected on multi-party basis. So we are working towards that, but certainly it is not 2018.”

“The next assembly election is September 2019, and we should be able to work towards that date. Most probably, by September 2019, we can let the referendum coincide with the assembly election so that by that time Ghanaians are voting for their assembly members, they will also be deciding that after 2019 MMDCEs should be elected on multi-party basis,” he added.

The issue of election of MMDCEs had in time past taken centre stage in major discussions in the country with some Ghanaians demanding for it.

This assertion by the Minister could mean that, the promise may not be fulfilled even within the first term of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.


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