The Executive Committees of Tamale South and Central constituencies of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Northern Region have sent a petition to the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, pleading with him to dismiss the Tamale Metropolitan Chief Executive, Iddrisu Musah Superior since they are tired of him.
In the view of the party functionaries, since the appointment of Musah Superior to one of the most enviable positions in the Northern Region, not a single contract has he ever awarded to members of the NPP, especially, the Executives, for them to use the proceeds to support the party.
They also accused the Tamale Mayor of running a parallel administration without consulting the party executives in both Tamale South and Central constituencies while also showing gross disrespect towards the regional executives and the political authority in the region.
Superior, is further accused of channeling the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly’s resources that otherwise should have been used to develop the two constituencies under the Metro – Tamale South and Tamale Central to Mion, a constituency he is targeting of becoming their Member of Parliament (MP).
Interacting with journalists over their displeasure with the Tamale MCE, Wednesday, the Tamale South Constituency Secretary of the NPP, Yussif Danjumah, said they’ve had enough of Superior’s actions and inactions and therefore wants the President to dismiss him with immediate effect.
“Ever since he declared his intentions to contest the NPP primaries in the Mion Constituency, his appetite for the development of his constituency is very glaring for any careful observer to the detriment of the two constituencies under Tamale Metro. He refused to honour an invitation by the Regional Executive Committee to settle this matter amicably and called their bluff. Again, since he is beyond everybody in this region, Mr. President, Tamale Metro can no longer contain we the Executives, and the MCE. The last time he had a meeting with the Constituency Executives, he apologized profusely and he was forgiven and was asked to go and sin no more. But his actions and inactions are worse than ever before, hence, we have no other option than to call for his immediate dismissal since that is the only language that he comprehends with”, noted Danjumah to a rousing applause from his fellow executives and members of the party.
He added “He throws his wait about and claims that he is only answerable to the President and that he got his appointment from Presidency. At least, that is not in contention. So therefore, Mr. President, we are asking you choose between the party Executives and an individual who is bent on destroying the party in the metropolis. Majority of what is supposed to be given to the two constituencies under Tamale Metro has been sent to Mion and this raises the question – is he the MCE for Mion or Tamale Metro?”
