Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak, the member of parliament for Asawase in the Ashanti Region, has criticized the National Democratic Congress (NDC) leadership over the changes in minority leadership in Parliament.
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 former Minority Chief Whip, who called the move a coup in his initial comments on the minority leadership changes, asserted that the party’s 17 incumbent MPs who lost their bids to represent the party in the 2024 elections, might have been prevented, had the outgoing leaders still been in charge.
The Asawase MP argued that even if scientific research was conducted, the findings would show unequivocally that the coup was wrong because the Party’s upper echelon failed to give the leaders in Parliament a chance to settle disputes and devise plans to save many more MPs.
“The truth is that in 2020, because the NPP had bridged camp, there was a lot of vigour, there was a lot of energy. Naturally, when you are going for primaries, NPP should be interested in some constituencies creating confusion, so that they can have the chance to split your votes and take the constituency. And there are examples like Akontombra and many others.”
“Now in 2023, NPP is struggling to find its feet, they are struggling to stay above waters, and then you go and lose 17 MPs. Who do you blame? It will be very unfair if you blame the current [Minority] leadership because the primaries were announced before the coup that happened in Parliament, [and that was] very unstrategic.”
Mohammed Muntaka
As part of efforts to unify the party before the 2024 elections, the Asawase MP also urged the NDC’s newly chosen flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama, to meet with the MPs in smaller groups. He continued by saying that numerous MPs had grown resentful of the party, as a result of internal intrigue.
Contender Of Sam George Lost Due To His Habit Of Spreading Lies
Sam Nartey George, the current Member of Parliament for the Ningo-Prampram seat, said he will never forget the lies that Michael Tetteh Kwetey, his opponent, spread about him during the just concluded parliamentary and presidential primaries of the National Democratic Congress.
Sam George bitterly described how his opponent propagated false information about him and his family, prior to the primaries when speaking in an interview. He hinted that his success was not unexpected because his main rival had assumed the lies would work in his favor.
“It is because of his petty evil lies that the delegates rubbed his face in the mud. Lies that make the devil shout the blood of Jesus because the devil couldn’t believe a human being will sit and formulate such lies.
“He attacked my wife and my children. He went about saying that I used Common Fund to take care of my wife and used some of it to buy a land cruiser, and it is how unintelligent some of these lies were that allowed the delegates to realize that he was a joker.”
Sam Nartey George
In the primary on May 13 on Saturday, Sam George defeated Michael Kwettey Nettey with 1,036 votes. Voting momentarily stopped at the New Ningo D/A Basic School B polling station, after two persons were detained, and it was not until the national leadership of the party intervened, that it was restarted. The elections were marred by charges of manipulation.
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