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Members of the Kumasi Traditional Council convened to have a crucial meeting on Monday, 29th January 2024 at the Manhyia Palace. 

The meeting was to decide the fate of the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi.

The second-highest decision-making body of the Asante Kingdom, whose membership is limited to traditional leaders, had been livid about then-embattled Chairman Wontumi’s failure to honour their summons and appear before them.

This follows an altercation between Mr Antwi Boasiako and the Kokosohene, Nana Kwaku Dua, at the recent vetting of parliamentary aspirants in the Ashanti region.

Though Chairman Wontumi has denied the accusations, he was invited by the traditional council for a hearing, an invitation he failed to honour on health grounds.

The meeting which was rescheduled for Monday, 29th January, 2024 happened today with Chairman Wontumi finally appearing before the traditional council.  

Based on the accounts and narrations from the various parties, the Council concluded that Chairman Wontumi had done nothing wrong in declaring that he has a kingdom as he had been accused, once it was made within a political context.  

The Ashanti Regional Chairman was not found guilty on the charges levelled against him, which had to do with him disrespecting the Asantehene.