The Ho Municipal Assembly on Tuesday rejected Mrs Fafa Adinyira as Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) sending her mainly women backers into frenzied protestations.
�We would not agree. We want a woman this time round. We would go on the streets. These men have had their way for too long and must be clipped,� were some the refrains they shouted individually and in groups.
The 42-member Assembly voted 28 against and 14 for Mrs Adinyira, a Human Resource professional.
She needed a two-thirds majority, which is 66.67 percent of the votes, to gain the job she was nominated for by the President to the replace Mr Issac Kodobisah.
Mr Stanley Glatey, a Member of the Assembly, rallied the protesting women, some dressed in �Mahama Ladies� branded T-Shirts, and said he would lead them to make representations to President John Mahama to re-nominate Mrs Adinyira.
�The result is disgusting, those who voted against the woman are self-seekers, and we would get to the President through the Regional Minister,� he said.
The women, some said to be representatives of market women, had horns ostensibly for celebrations, tore up red clothes and strung them round their neck and moved onto the street in the vicinity of the Assembly offices singing.
About 15 police personnel, some with batons, were brought into the Assembly premises while the protestation went on.
Mr Francis Ganyaglo, Deputy Regional Minister, expressed disappointment at the turn of events.
�By this rejection, we have all lost,� he said as dignitaries including, Mr Benjamin Kpodo, Ho-Central Member of Parliament, Captain George Nfodjo, a former Ho District Chief Executive (DCE)were transfixed in their chairs.
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