Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah questions fairness of proposed MMDCE elections

Former Minister of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development, Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah, has questioned the government’s proposed modalities for electing Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs), arguing that the process could exclude people who do not belong to the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC).

In a Facebook post on Friday, Mr Korsah criticised the proposed arrangement under which political authorities would nominate five persons, from whom three would be shortlisted to contest the elections, describing the system as inconsistent with the principles of competitive and non-partisan local governance.

According to the former minister, the proposed model risks shutting out qualified Ghanaians who do not share the political beliefs of the governing party or are not members of the NDC.