The National Democratic Congress leadership has come under fire for the changes in the minority leadership of Parliament, according to Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak, the member of parliament for Asawase in the Ashanti Region.
The 17 incumbent MPs who lost their ambition to represent the party in the 2024 elections, according to the former Minority Chief Whip, might have been prevented if the previous leaders had remained been in office. He called the move a coup while speaking about the minority leadership changes for the first time.
Muntaka asserts that the minority caucus in the upcoming Parliament will suffer as a result of the loss of experience in the just concluded parliamentary elections.
The NPP naturally should be interested in some constituencies creating confusion when you are going through primaries so that they can have the chance to split your votes and take the constituency, and there are examples like Akontombra and many others. The truth is that in 2020, because the NPP had bridged camp, there was a lot of vigor, there was a lot of energy.
“Now, in 2023, the NPP is fighting to get off the ground and to stay afloat, and you go and lose 17 MPs. Whom do you hold accountable? It would be unreasonable to hold the current [Minority] leadership accountable because the primaries were announced prior to the coup that took place in Parliament, which was very unwise.
Any scientific analysis would demonstrate that the timing of that coup was utterly incorrect. It prevented the new leadership from settling and planning to save numerous other MPs.
As part of efforts to unify the party before the 2024 elections, the Asawase MP also urged the NDC’s newly chosen flagbearer, John Mahama, to meet with the MPs in smaller groups.
