The New Patriotic Party (NPP) General Secretary, Justin Kodua Frimpong (JFK), has revealed to the Kumasi Traditional Council that the party's Ashanti Regional Chairman, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi is unwell and currently on admission at a health facility.

JFK, who appeared before the chiefs and elders of the Ashanti Kingdom on Monday, disclosed this while reporting to the council about the whereabouts of Chairman Wontumi who has been summoned.

The General Secretary of the party however confessed that he had no doctor's report to prove that Wontumi, was indeed sick.

JFK said that Chairman Wontumi called him on Sunday and claimed that he was at the hospital, on admission and that he was not well.

However, when JFK asked him to provide a doctor's report, so that he could present it to the chiefs, Chairman Wontumi failed to do so.

"And so last week Thursday, I called Nana Samaahene and informed him that chairman has come back and so just as was said the last time, if God permits and if there is room, on Monday, we would want to come and fulfil your request of his presence before you so we could discuss what needs to be discussed. Nananom, with all due respect, yesterday on my way here from Accra, then my chairman called me and said he is at the hospital, on admission and that he is not well. When he said that, I said oh, I am already on my way to Kumasi, if that is the case, he should let me have a doctor's report, so I can present it to the chiefs when I come here today. But as time approached for my meeting with the chiefs, I hadn't received the report. And I also decided, I was not going to wait for the report before I come before Nananom. So Nananom, this is the case now," JFK said.

The summon is in relation to some alleged derogatory remarks that Chairman Wontumi has made against the Asantehene, Otumfuor Osei Tutu II, during the vetting of parliamentary aspirants in Manhyia South.

The remarks have sparked outrage among the chiefs and the youth of the Ashanti Kingdom, who have demanded an apology from Chairman Wontumi and threatened to exile him from the Ashanti land if he did not apologise to the Asantehene and the golden stool.

Some elders in the council have also asked that the NPP suspends all its activities in Kumasi until Chairman Wontumi appears before the Council and clears the air.