Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Sunyani and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary candidate for Sunyani East, Kwasi Oppong Ababio has asked residents and assembly memebers of the municipality who are asking him to remove his campaign posters from his official vehicle to praise him rather than criticise.
According to him, though he had his posters embossed on the vehicle with registration number GV 271-14, he does not use it for his campaign tours.
Mr Ababio has received a lot backlash from residents of Sunyani and a section of assembly members for embossing his posters on vehicles used for official duties at the assembly with many arguing that he is abusing incumbency and that the use of the vehicle amounts to partisan politics.
But speaking on Kumasi-based Abusua FM on Monday, he stated that so far as he has not been booted out of office as the MCE, he has every right to use the official vehicles.
‘It’s true my posters are embossed on Nissan patrol,  as far as I'm still the MCE, and have not been booted out, I have every right to use the car, this is not the first time such a thing has happened, apart from that I don’t use the vehicle on my campaign tours. It’s your opinion that I remove the posters, everything that you do, people will have something to say, people will make noise about everything you do, why didn’t they say that I use my own cars on my campaign tours and that he (I) doesn’t use the car for his campaign tours. It’s not abuse of incumbency. Why don’t they praise me on that. People should rather shower praises on me. I am the incumbent so my posters will not be removed,’ he asserted.
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He also indicated that his intention to prevent his coordinator from acting same because he is more powerful than him.
‘I am the overseer of the assembly my posters will surely be embossed on the vehicle, a coordinator under my jurisdiction cannot do same, because power supersedes other, if you are a politician, it doesn’t mean you don’t have any right at all,‘ he said.Â
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