The Statesman

Why Boa Amponsem was unopposed?Chiefs say it was against custom

The Stateman reports that the consensual outcome of the election of Odeefuo Boas Amponsem III, as President of the National House of Chiefs last Thursday, was more of a protest by the assembled chiefs against the election than their overwhelming endorsement.

According to the paper, Odeefuo Boa Amponsem sailed through the election without contest due to a boycott by more of the chiefs who criticised it as a ?culturally reprehensible act?, considering the fact that the burial of their President, was barely three away.

The Statesman says the election of the Denkyirahene in succession to the late Okyehene, Osagyefuo Kuntunkununku II, who passed away on March 17, this year, as President of the National House of Chiefs, was described as ?historic? for its consensual nature as a result of his unopposed election.