The New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) National Council is being urged by the majority caucus’s parliamentary committee leadership to maintain the majority caucus’s current leadership in the 9th Parliament.
The NPP will be placed as a minority group in the 9th Parliament as a result of its crushing defeat in the 2024 General Elections.
Because of their extensive knowledge of parliamentary procedures, Kwabena Amankwa Asiamah, MP for Fanteakwa North and Chairman of the Education Committee, believes that the majority group’s existing leaders should be kept in place until the party wins a landslide in future elections.
“It is the decision by chairmen of the committees in parliament to plead to the leadership of our party to maintain the leadership status quo in parliament. Why do we say so? We say this because we are counting on the experience and the nature of parliament that the ninth parliament is going to face now.
“Our numbers have dwindled and for that matter, we need a front that is experienced to face the enormity of members on the other side and that we have concluded that it will be beneficial to our caucus in parliament and the party in general and for the good of democracy in Ghana to maintain what we have now.
“We say so again that they have experienced whatever has transpired in the previous government and previous parliament and we think that they are the right calibre of people to lead this time around that our numbers are down,” he stated when he addressed journalists in Accra on Friday, December 27.
