The election of  a Presiding Member of the Kumasi Metropolitant Assembly has been postponed to Tuesday, Ccontrary to the expectations of stakeholders.

The election was meant to be held today [Friday], but has to be pushed to a latter date  because there is currently no Jude in Kumasi to swear the Presiding Member into office after the elections. All the judges are in Accra for a programme.

The Assembly has been without a Metropolitan Chief Executive and Presiding Member for several months and efforts to elect a new one on several occasions had ended in a deadlock.

A few days ago, one of the main contenders agreed to step down from the race to allow for an easy election of a winner.

KMA fails to elect Presiding Member after 8th try

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) with  147 members, 91 of them elected, 44 appointed and 10 ex-officio members, who are Members of Parliament (MPs) last  Tuesday failed to elect a Presiding Member (PM) after five rounds of voting ended in a stalemate as non of the contestants Nana Kofi Senya and_Nana Adjei Kesse IV, both former PMs - was able to secure the two-thirds majority votes required by the law in an election supervised by officials of the Electoral Commission,

Assemblyman, NDC serial caller trade blows at KMA

Earlier on Tuesday, an Assembly member of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Abdullah Muaza, traded blows with a National Democratic Congress (NDC) serial caller, during proceedings to elect a Presiding Member for the assembly.

Residents worried over KMA election brouhaha

Residents in the Ashanti regional capital, Kumasi, are worried about the assembly's failure to elect assembly members on eight different occasions.

They describe their current leaders as selfish, a situation that is hindering development in the area. Kumasi has been without a Metropolitan Chief Executive and Presiding Member for several months.

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