[ 2021-03-17 ]

Approving Akufo-Addo’s ministers ‘regrettable and unfortunate’ – NDC caucus
The leadership of the Minority in Parliament has
expressed regret over the mass approval of all the
ministers nominated by President Nana Addo Dankwa
Akufo-Addo and vetted last month.

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At a meeting with the Council of Elder of the
National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Tuesday,
March 16, the two parties agreed that the incident
of Wednesday, March 3 “was regrettable and
unfortunate and runs contrary to the principles
and values of the party”.



The meeting comes exactly after the Council met
leadership of the party over the approval of some
of the ministerial nominees, who were rejected by
the NDC members on the Appointments Committee.

Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Mavis Hawa Koomson and Dr
Osei Afriyie Akoto were the three ministers
rejected in the report by the Minority members on
the Appointments Committee.

But at plenary, the three received overwhelming
votes to be approved as substantive ministers.

This came as a surprise to some staunch members of
the largest opposition party, among them the
National Communications Officer, Sammy Gyamfi.

Mr Gyamfi took to his official Facebook page the
following day to express disappointment in the
leadership of the party in Parliament, casting
insinuations at the Minority Leader, Haruna
Iddrisu, the Minority Chief Whip, Alhaji Mohammed
Muntaka Mubarak, and even the Right Honorable
Speaker, Alban Bagbin, who until 2021 was an NDC
MP.

“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 own MPs, is what
strengthens me to work hard for the great NDC to
regain power,” he wrote on Thursday, March 4.

“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.”



But the meeting between the Council and leadership
of the Minority in Parliament sought to resolve
the fracas.

“The Caucus Leadership have since pledged to
uphold the principles and values of the party in
our collective bid to develop our country,”
Chairman of the Council Alhai Mahama Iddrisu said
in a press release issued after the meeting.

“The Council urged National leadership of the
party to resolve issues relating to the Caucus
leadership in Parliament and called on the rank
and file of the party to remain calm, and provide
the needed support to our Caucus in order to hold
the Akufo Addo government strictly to the
principles of probity and accountability.”

It promised that the party will emerge from the
setback “more united and focused” and will
take on the government squarely.

Source - 3 News

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