Kumasi, April 14, GNA - Supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Zongo communities in the Ashanti Region, have expressed their anger over a declaration by the President of the Council of Zongo Chiefs that people in these areas were all for the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC).

Chief Ibrahim Ahmed was reported to have stated at a meeting with President John Evans Atta Mills at the Kumasi Central Mosque on Tuesday that people in the Zongo were fully behind him and that they would vote to return him (President Mills) to power in 2012. A press statement signed by Alhaji S.M. Shariff, a former Regional Chairman of the NPP, however took umbrage at this and demanded a retraction.

It said Chief Ibrahim could certainly not have been speaking for all the people in the Zongo since in Kumasi alone, there were more than 100,000 NPP members.

The statement said they had everything to believe that the Chief only wanted to please President Mills simply because he had been made a Government appointee of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA).