The Chairman of the Local Government Committee and Member of Parliament for Akim Swedru Kennedy Osei Nyarko has clarified government's position on conducting elections for Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) as captured in the NPP 2016 manifesto.Â
According to him, the government has begun stakeholder consultations on a probable timeline for the elections to be conducted and that will be after September 2019, when the tenure of elected District Assembly officers would have come to an end, adding that a complete assembly would've been made available for the process to be initiated.
He stressed on an Accra-based radio station that government cannot conduct elections for only Municipal and Metropolitan Chief Executives insisting that there will be no locus when that happens.Â
Minister for Local Government, O.B Amoah, Monday indicated that MMDCE elections may not be possible yet due to some constitutional amendments that needed to be done to get MMDCEs elected on a multi-party basis.
“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 the multi-party basis, he stated.
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