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Some angry residents of Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital have vowed to teach the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) a lesson in the December elections on account of what they say is the NPP’s neglectful attitude towards Kumasi.
This warning should be a concern to the governing party because the Ashani Region is its main political stronghold and a voter defection from the region will surely have a significant impact on the party’s electoral fortunes.
Today the angry residents took to the streets in protest, with sights and sounds from the protest including a near mob attack on a car which had a poster of President Akufo-Addo on it.
“NPP claims Ashanti is their stronghold; over the years because we have voted like zombies for them, they think they can take us for granted. Just take a look at the road on which I am standing. They stay in Accra there and brag that Ashanti is their stronghold, but they take us for granted, they ignore us like we are corpses. This December we will teach them a bitter lesson, we will show them that a corpse can wink,” lamented one of the demonstrators.
Clad in red, the demonstrators flooded the streets amidst the chanting of war songs interspersed with loud Azonto music from what appears to be a hired jam service provider.
As the demonstrators went about protesting Ashanti’s unrequited, “zombie” love for the NPP, a commercial vehicle came along and reportedly had a poster of President Akufo-Addo on it. The demonstrators are seen in a video footage reacting to the site with expletives. It is not clear whether the driver replied but soon, people were pelting the vehicle with sachets of water.
Others opened and banged the vehicle’s doors several times. Eventually, however, the vehicle managed to escape the irate crowd.
The demonstration against the NPP government in the NPP stronghold is coming barely three months to the 2020 elections in December. It is also coming at a time that the NPP’s manifesto has been outclassed by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC)’s own.
Recently, some chiefs in the Ashanti Region have expressed disgust at the sheer neglect of the NPP and have lamented that the Akufo Addo administration has not undertaken any significant infrastructural development in the region in comparison to that of the erstwhile administration of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).