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No Municipal/District Chief Executive (MDCE) in the Volta Region will stand for parliamentary elections in 2028.
“Our stance is to work hand-in-hand with our respective MPs to lift the region to greater heights, and not to contest their seats”, said the Dean of Volta Region MDCEs, Jerry Yaw Ameko.
He maintained that the government’s Resetting Agenda required absolute unity within the NDC and gave an assurance that no MDCE would distort the strong and prevailing unity within the National Democratic Congress in the region.
Mr Ameko, who is the DCE of Adaklu, said this at the signing of the Performance Agreement Contract by the MDCEs with the Volta Regional Coordinating Council in Ho last Sunday.
The Dean of Volta MDCEs cited instances in the past in which MDCEs and sitting MPs wrestled for the seats in parliament, and that caused rifts within the ranks of the party.
“That will not happen again,” he affirmed.
All 18 MDCEs, accompanied by their respective MPs and coordinating directors, signed the Performance Agreement Contract.
The annual exercise, instituted by the Head of the Local Government Service, is a deliberate governance tool to strengthen accountability, improve service delivery, and ensure that decentralisation delivers real and measurable benefits to the people.
Therefore, the performance contracts contained carefully selected projects, programmes, and service delivery targets that responded directly to the needs of communities, he added.
In that regard, they covered the areas of infrastructure development and sanitation, to education, health, local economic development, social protection, and other key performance indicators, Mr Gunu explained.
He said it was gratifying that the MDCEs have taken a firm stance to consolidate the unity in the NDC by collaborating with the MPs and all development matters.
