KMA Failed to Elect Presiding Member After Second Round of Votes
From Ernest Best Anane, Kumasi
The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has failed to elect a Presiding Member (PM) after a second round of voting, with neither candidate securing the required two-thirds majority.
In the first round, Kwame Frimpong received 35 votes, while Baffour secured 24. The second round saw Frimpong get 36 votes and Baffour 23, with both totals falling short of the required majority. Two other aspirants, Isham Alhassan and Kwame Agyemang, withdrew ahead of the vote.
The election was supervised by the Electoral Commission of Ghana, in line with local governance regulations.
The assembly is now expected to hold further consultations within ten days before attempting another vote to fill the presiding member position, leaving leadership in the city’s local authority temporarily unresolved
