The Chief of Savelugu Yoo Naa Abukari Mahama has beaten stiff competition from 3 other candidates to emerge the nominee for the Yaa Naa, the overlord of the Dagbon kingdom.
The other 3 persons included Nyab Tampion-Lana, Nyab Kampakuya-Naa and Nyab Boling-Lana whose names came up as possible successors of the late Ya-Naa Yakubu Andani II and Yaa Naa Mahamadu Abdulai IV whose funerals have all be performed under government supervsion.
The consulting elders include Gushei Naa and Kuganaa who nominated the Chief of Savulugu to succeed the late Ya Naa Yakubu Andani II who died in 2002.
The nomination of Yoo Naa Abukari Mahama is in line with the customs and traditions in respect of succession to the Kingship of Dagbon and the decision of the traditional selection committee is also in line with the Dagbon constitution of 1930 and the Supreme Court decision of December 1986.
The Supreme Court in 1986 ordered that only occupants of the gate skins of Mion, Karaga and Savulugu are eligible to contest for the Kingship of Dagbon. The Supreme Court decision also barred regents of deceased Ya Naa’s from contesting for the nam of Yendi.
Dagbon chieftaincy succession has experienced over two decades of feud with pockets of recurring violence which claimed several lives and destroyed properties.
The Government of President John Agyekum Kufuor constituted the Otumfuo led committee of Eminent Chiefs to employ customary mechanisms to resolve the problem.
The committee finally managed to get the Abudu and Andani royal families to commit to the roadmap to peace in Dagbon. This has led to the performance of the funeral rites of the late Ya-Naas, Naa Mahamadu Abdulai and Naa Yakubu Andani.
The official coronation of the new Ya-Naa is expected to begin as soon as possible in the wake of a dawn and dusk curfew imposed in the area by the Interior Ministry for security reasons.
Source: BestNewsGH.com
