The New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) regional chairman in Ashanti, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, also known as Chairman Wontumi, has come under fire from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Ashanti Region for pleading with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to finish the Suame Interchange because its success in the general elections of 2024 will depend on the project in the region.
Wontumi had earlier claimed that the NPP could win the elections by garnering more support from the Ashanti Region, and that this would depend on the completion of a number of projects in the area.
The Suame Interchange‘s completion is crucial to the NPP’s chances, according to the outspoken Chairman.
The NPP executives think that starting the project would help the President gain support in the area for the elections in 2024.
However, the NDC asserted that Chairman Wontumi’s argument shows that the NPP has nothing to offer the Ashanti Region’s residents in the way of infrastructure.
The NPP government, according to Augustus Kwesi Andrews, chairman of the NDC in Ashanti, has failed the region’s citizens.
“I am very disappointed at what Chairman Wontumi is doing. We all know that the Ashanti Region is the stronghold of the NPP and now the chairman of the NPP is begging his own government to speed up projects in Ashanti Region. This shows that the NPP is taking the people for granted. They went to Kumawu begging, and we all know the results that came out from Kumawu. Gradually, they are losing the Ashanti Region to the NDC,” he stated.
The Suame Interchange project, which fulfills a promise the President made while touring the Ashanti Region in 2021, will include overpasses at the Abrepo, Krofrom, Anomangye, Magazine New Road, and Abusuakruwa junctions along with a four-tier interchange at the current Suame Roundabout.
After the Pokuase Interchange in the Greater Accra Region, it will be the second four-tier interchange in the nation and the first in the Ashanti Region.
Work on the project hasn’t started despite Nana Addo’s ceremonial groundbreaking in October 2022.
