The result of the secret parliamentary balloting for the deferred and rejected minister designates has pained Sammy Gyamfi, thus calling the National Democratic Congress Members of Parliament and the speaker Alban Bagbin.
The result of the voting that saw all the deferred and rejected ministers approved by a consensus and majority votes margins – a sign that Sammy Gyamfi believed that some NDC MPs cast their votes for the Akuffo Addo designated ministers with Mavis Hawa Koomson getting the highest support as all three minister nominees rejected by NDC members on the Appointment Committee sailed through after the secret balloting.
Composition of Parliament
NPP: 137
NDC: 137
IND: 1
TOTAL: 275
NB: 10 NDC MPs were not present.
Total votes – 265
1. Information Minister-designate Kojo Oppong Nkrumah -Yes 155 =58.68% Nos -110
2. Fisheries and Aquaculture, Hawa Koomson -Yes 161= 60.75% Nos-104
3. Agric, Dr. Afriyie Akoto -Yes 143 = 53.96% Nos-121, Rejected – 1
In reaction, the NDC party National Communications Officer wrote: Comrades, the betrayal we have suffered in the hands of the Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Alban Bagbin, the leadership of our Parliamentary group, particularly Hon. Haruna Iddrissu and Hon. Muntaka Mubarak, and dozens of our MPs, are what strengthens me to work hard for the great NDC to regain power.
They brazenly defied the leadership of the party and betrayed the collective good for their selfish interest. And we, must not let them succeed in their parochial quest to destroy the NDC, the party that has done so much for them and all of us. The shame they have brought on the party will forever hang like an albatross around their necks.
These are hard times for all
of us but we should not let the betrayal of a few quench our love for the great NDC. Rather, let it strengthen us to fight for this party. We all have an equal stake in this party. They are few, we are many. Some have sold their conscience but ours is intact. And we can work together to rebuild the party from the ashes of 3rd March 2021, which I call “Black Wednesday ”- Our day of self-inflicted shame.
This is the time for us to insist on the right changes in the leadership of the NDC group in Parliament or forget about them completely. The current leadership has lost their moral authority to lead and is not fit to sit on the front bench of the NDC side of the house. More importantly, it’s about time we understood, that we don’t have any NDC Speaker of Parliament. No, we don’t! We have a Speaker who rode on the back of the NDC into Office to pursue his parochial agenda and nothing more. You trust them, at your peril.
The hypocrites can choose to remain quiet or even condemn us for speaking up, so they can remain in the good books of the renegades. But I and all who are pained by this act of betrayal will not keep quiet, because we don’t fear anyone and don’t wish to be in their good books. If they can defy the party leadership and interest openly and subject all of us to public ridicule, then they can and must also be called out openly. The NDC party is supreme and it must be cleansed.
Speak up, we can and must! And let nobody stand in our way. But, when all is said and done, let’s work for the NDC with all our might and strength. Quench not your love for the party. Hope must not die. This storm shall pass. The NDC will survive and shall bounce back stronger for victory. So I say to you, be strong!’. He wrote.
Oppong Nkrumah, Hawa Koomson, 11 Others Got Parliament Approval.
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