Allow us to choose someone who is competent to lead us– Bekwai delegates tell Joe Wise

A group of delegates in the Bekwai constituency in the Ashanti region have asked their outgoing Member of Parliament, Joseph Osei-Owusu popularly known as Joe Wise to allow them to choose a competent person to lead them in the constituency.

According to the delegates, Joe Wise should stay away from the upcoming parliamentary primaries scheduled for Saturday, January 27, 2024, in the constituency as they would not be swayed by his attempt to force them to vote for an incompetent candidate who goes about backstabbing others.

The delegates claim they hope to see their outgoing MP supporting an aspirant who is competent and can be trusted with a ministerial position and not someone who has brought shame to the constituency as COP Alex Mensah has done with his conduct before the parliamentary committee probing the leaked tape.

Addressing issues in the constituency in a viral video, a former parliamentary aspirant in the area, Kwabena Nyame said the MP’s support for someone who was not known in the constituency until recently is bizarre.

“We are begging Joe wise to leave us in peace. We don’t want to talk about all the things that went wrong under him and the neglect of the delegates. He should leave and allow us to choose someone competent to lead us. We don’t want a gossip who can’t be trusted for anything.

“How can he be telling us that COP Mensah was trapped? If a senior officer like that can be trapped by a civilian then he is incompetent and we can’t have such a person as our leader,” Mr Nyame said.

Mr. Nyame who is also a delegate added; “Fellow delegates I’m urging us to vote for a competent individual who will bring glory to our constituency and can be trusted with a ministerial position like Ralph Opoku and not an okro mouth who cannot be trusted with any important information by our next president or even in parliament, a man who goes about lying about others just for a favour, that’s not what we need because this is an important constituency”.

Mr Nyame, further revealed that until the funeral of retired COP Alex Mensah’s mother during which he was accompanied by the IGP Dr George Akuffo Dampare to the constituency, he was not known by the party and its members in Bekwai.