The MP says the NPP flagbearer's idea of a new region was mere political promise.
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According to him, the idea of the new region was never part of Akufo-Addo’s agenda, saying he made the promise because residents in the Northern part of the Western Region are yearning for it.
“I am sure when he got to Sefwi Wiawso, some people told him that what is needed by the people around here is the need to create a region and so Nana Akufo Addo picked it and so that is why the first day in Sefwi, he couldn’t make that promise,” he said in an interview with Citi FM.
“If he had thought of it before going to that part of the Western Region, he should have made the statement immediately he was in the Sefwi areas,” the Deputy Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing added.
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The Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party has promised to create a Western North Constituency in the Western should he be elected president in this year’s elections.
Speaking at Juabeso in his five-day visit to the Western region, Nana Addo explained that "the northern part of the region [Western North] has to get its own region if Akufo-Addo becomes the next President of Ghana. My government will follow all the constitutional provisions to get this new region".
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Nana Addo believes an independent Western North Region will enhance the governance of the northern part of the region.
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Nana Addo's promise adds to the many proposals to carve another region out of the western region because of distance between the western north and the western south.
Among those proposing this creation is the former Western regional minister in the Kuffour administration Joseph Boahen Aidoo.
