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The Central Regional Minister, Justina Marigold Assan, has urged Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly members to vote to approve MCE candidate Ernest Arthur.
Kneeling in front of the assembly members, the Regional Minister begged the assembly members to vote for the MCE candidate.
“I appealed to you the last time we met to vote for the MCE nominee, but you declined. Today, we have another opportunity to confirm the President’s MCE nominee for Cape Coast. If it doesn’t go well, we will all be affected, especially me.”
“So I will plead with you to give him the nod, bearing in mind the development of the metropolis. If I need to kneel down before you, I will so that honourable members will consider and confirm the President’s MCE nominee. If anyone has issues with the MCE nominee, please do forgive him and vote for him,” she said.
The vote, which was supposed to begin at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 6, 2021, began at 5:56 p.m.
Approximately 40 minutes into the event, organizers called for a thirty-minute break, which lasted for more than an hour.
Several meetings were held to persuade assembly members to vote for the former MCE.
The Minister and MCE candidate, as well as the MP for Cape Coast South, George Kweku Ricketts Hagan, and other government officials, convened for a crunch meeting to determine how best to persuade assembly members.
Ernest Arthur, on the other hand, was denied for the second time, despite the Central Regional Minister’s plea for votes to confirm him.
In the second vote on Wednesday, the re-nominated MCE fell short of the two-thirds majority required.
Mr. Arthur received 40 ‘YES’ votes from the 65 Assembly members who participated in the confirmation process.
Despite losing, Nana Awuku, the Presiding Member of the Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly, ordered another round of voting, which the assembly members refused.
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SOURCE: CITINEWSROOM
