'The Road To Power Passes Through The Asante Region' – Spokesperson For Otumfuo

The Spokesperson for The Asante Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Baffour Hyiaman Brentuo VI says Former President Mahama will be ungrateful if he underrates the interventions the Ashanti King has made in his political career.

This came in the tension going on between the camp of the former President and the Manhyia Palace over the role the Asantehene played in the 2016 general elections.

The Otumfuo Mawerehene stated clearly that the decision to concede defeat was through Asantehene`s intervention and before then the King and the former President Mahama as well as the Electoral Commissioner met twice before John Mahama left power.

“The meeting was between the then now- President Akufo-Addo, Mrs. Charlotte Osei former electoral commissioner and Air Force Gen O.J were witnesses of the meeting. Mahama will be a colossal ingrate; even his appointment to Vice Presidency was mitigated by Otumfuo, when Flt. Lt. Gen Rawlings would not allow him to be the running mate to the late Prof. John Atta- Mills in 2008.

“To call Otumfuo a liar or allow his cronies or to allow his people to disparage and pour vituperative to such a benefactor who went to the extent of accommodating you during your tenure as President, is to say the least very regrettable and inexcusable,” he said.

He added; “As a politician he should remember that the Road to Power does not pass through Manhyia Palace but definitely through the indivisible Asante region where Otumfuo reigns, and that his people will always remember him as an ungrateful politician. He shouldn’t forget where he danced to the “Y3n ntie obiara” music to the chagrin of the broad masses of Asante people that won Manhyia Palace displeasure of many Ghanaians. What disgusting betrayal from a “son’’.