{"id":238755,"date":"2016-08-13T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T06:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=238755"},"modified":"2016-08-13T06:00:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T06:00:21","slug":"nana-addos-extra-region-promise-a-political-gimmick-ahi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/08\/nana-addos-extra-region-promise-a-political-gimmick-ahi\/","title":{"rendered":"Nana Addo’s extra region promise a political gimmick – Ahi"},"content":{"rendered":"
Deputy Water Resources, Works and Housing Minister,\u00a0Sampson Ahi, has rubbished the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Flagbearer,\u00a0Nana Akufo-Addo’s promise, to craft an 11th region out of the Western Region, should he emerge winner in the December polls.<\/p>\n
\u201cI take it to be a political gimmick, and Nana Akufo-Addo is going round, when he goes to hear that people need these particular amenities, he says when come I will do it for you. It is one of those things,\u201d he said on Eyewitness News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”RLjk0yRyfO19RbIEvtR5nT1oi5GWORls”]Speaking at Juaboso as part of his five-day visit of the region, Nana Addo explained that government will follow all the “constitutional provisions to get this new region\u201d as he argued that such a move would facilitate development in the northern part of the region.<\/p>\n But Mr. Ahi, who’s the MP for Bodi in the Western Region,\u00a0explained that Nana Addo was only pandering to people in the northern part of the region who had similar discussions.<\/p>\n \u201cI am saying that because\u2026what is being discussed in that northern part of the Western Region is the need for a region to be created out of the Western region.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI am sure when he got to Sefwi, some people told him that what is needed by the people is the need to create a region so Nana Akufo-Addo took it. If he had thought of it before going to that part of the Western Region, he should have made the statement immediately he entered Sefwi,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n