PHOTO: "Mahama Doesn't Respect Asantes...We Reserved A Seat For Him But He Ignored Us"- Chairman Wontumi

Failure on the part of former President
John Mahama, to honour an
 invitation sent to him to join in
the celebration of 63rd
Independence Anniversary has been condemned by the Ashanti
Regional Chairman of the New
 Patriotic Party.

Mr. Bernard Antwi-Boasiako in
an interview with
Oseikrom TV  claims that
Mr. Mahama's absence
 from the event,
provides more reason
 for the
 people in the Ashanti
 region to vote massively against
him in 2020.

According to him, organizers of
 the event reserved a special
invitation for the former
President and accorded him
the highest respect he
 deserves as a former head of state.

The Ashanti Regional Chairman
 who is also known as Chairman
 Wontumi stated "I am not
going to sound tribal, it isn't a
good thing but you can tell
that John Mahama doesn't
respect Asantes. In time past
he openly insulted us by telling
us we are ingrates. We reserved
a seat for him but he ignored us".

He added that "when our great
 King Otumfuo Osei Tutu II
 revealed that it took his intervention
 after the 2016 elections for John
 Mahama to handover power to
 President Akufo-Addo, he
 (John Mahama) called him a liar.
 Today, the region has invited
you to join us celebrate Ghana's
 Independence and you disrespect us
by not showing up".

Chairman Wontumi noted that former President Mahama should have at least "shown respect to Ashantis by
informing the Protocol team
 why he couldn't
show up just as former President
Rawlings
officially did".

On Friday, 6th March, 2020,
Ghana's 63rd Independence
 Day Anniversary took place
at the Baba Yara sports
 stadium in Kumasi, the Ashanti
 regional capital.

The special guest for the occasion is the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Keith Rowley.