Adjei-Mensah Korsah criticises government’s proposed MMDA CEO Election modalities

“Ghanaians had wished for a true and proper independent election without having to shortlist three party people and vote from,” Mr Korsah stated, adding that the proposed model “in principle and substance is no different from the status quo that we seek to depart from as a country.”In a Facebook post on Friday, Mr Korsah said the decision for political authorities to nominate five persons, from whom three would be shortlisted for an election, was disappointing and did not represent the kind of independent local-level elections many Ghanaians had anticipated.

Former Minister of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development, Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah, has criticised the government’s proposed modalities for the election of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs), describing the arrangement as inconsistent with calls for a non-partisan local governance system.