Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, is convinced the government would have saved itself the stress ahead of the December 17, 2019 referendum if chiefs were consulted.
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According to him, if chiefs had been consulted, some chiefs would not have declared that the proposal to elect Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) and political party participation in the same process were incompatible.
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“If there had been such engagement, I could not think of how anyone would have ignored the logic in the case for, according to our chiefs, the rightful representation in the new structure. And by the same token, I could not think of how any chief would have seen any incompatibility in the removal of the entrenched clauses in the Constitution to permit the election of the metro and district chief executives or mayors and also allow political parties to sponsor candidates for local elections,” he said at the Annual Leadership Lecture Series organised by the University for Professional Studies, Accra on Friday.
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