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Akufo-Addo arrives in Kumasi as tension mounts in party

He is scheduled to visit Otuomfo Osei Tutu II, the Ashantehene, today Saturday, April 1. He is also scheduled to visit the abandoned maternity block project for the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) which was started in 1974 by the Kutu Acheampong regime.

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He is scheduled to visit Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Ashantehene, today Saturday, April 1. He is also scheduled to visit the abandoned maternity block project for the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) which was started in 1974 by the Kutu Acheampong regime.

The president's daunting task in the midst of his official visit is persuading his party members to remain calm and give him time to roll out his policies.

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The party's private security, the Delta Force, had attacked his Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator saying they cannot work with him.

And on Thursday, communications officers in the region abandoned radio and TV panel discussions because of neglect by the party.

Another pressing issue for the president is to demonstrate that enough Ashantis have been appointed into his government.

In a panic mode to test the president's popularity, the party is organising a rally on Sunday for the president to directly residents of the region.

The president is expected to say what he has achieved since he assumed office. He is expected to say the Free SHS will start in September, that the One-district-one-factory will materialise and that jobs will be created for the teaming unemployed youth.

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In addition, he is expected to plead for time for his policies to crystallise.

Despite the tension in the region, the president spokesperson Mustapha Hamid said Nana Akufo-Addo's trip is purely accidental.

“This is an institutionalised arrangement where every month he will visit a region. We cannot envisage what trouble will come next month when we are going to the next region, but if by accident, something happens and he is there, it is purely accidental,” he said at a news conference.

“It has nothing to do with this matter otherwise it wouldn’t be institutionalised. It would just be to go to the Ashanti Region and wait till there is trouble in another region, but that is not the case. Every month, once he is in Ghana, he will make sure he’s in a region to interact with people.”

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