The Executive Director of the Atta Mills Institute, Koku Anyidoho, has said the recent change in leadership of the Minority caucus in Parliament, will bring about tribal, religious and ethnic divisions among the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).
According to the Atta Mills’ Institute Executive Director, changing the Minority leader, Haruna Iddrisu and Minority Chief Whip, Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka, who are both Muslims without replacing them with Muslims but rather non-Muslims, sends a certain signal to Muslims that the party does not want them.
Mr Anyidoho indicated that the NDC party will now become a laughing stock for the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP).
He told Hajia Bintu Saana that: “We have two Muslims, Haruna and Muntaka, two practicing Muslims. NDC has been mocking NPP, all the time that they don’t like Muslims.”
Koku Anyidoho
“Now you remove the two Muslims, you didn’t bring another Muslim to replace them. Today, NPP people are laughing at us because we who claimed to like Muslims, have today sacked them.”
Mr Anyidoho explained that the change was not good for the NDC party, as Muslims would rather turn to support the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, who is also the Vice-President, due to the party’s decision to remove the two leaders.
Koku Anyidoho
“So today, they’ll go to the Mosque and pray to Allah that NDC doesn’t like Muslims, so they resolve that from today, they’ll rather go where they will be celebrated as Muslims and then they’ll all go and support Bawumia.”
Koku Anyidoho also chipped in that; “The ethnic and religious dimension has already begun. Go to Tamale South, go to Asawase, aren’t you hearing the things that we’re all hearing. So the ethnic dimension, the religious dimension the tribal dimension has already kicked in.”
NDC Needs Divine Intervention
The Director of Communications for the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has called on Ghanaians to seek divine intervention for the leadership of the opposition party. The National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the wake of the leadership crisis in the Minority in Parliament.
According to Mr Richard Ahiagbah, the party is divided against itself.
He argued that consultation was required in changing the leadership on the front bench of the Minority in Parliament, but somehow, the party leadership has refused to engage with its Members of Parliament.
The NPP’s director made this claim in a tweet while reacting to a story attributed to the NDC’s Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram ConstitueRncy in the Greater Accra Region, Sam Nartey George, headlined: ‘Even SHS headmasters don’t sit in their office and appoint head boys’.
The NDC MP’s story was in reaction to a Tuesday, January 24, 2023, letter to the Speaker of Parliament signed by General Secretary Fifi Kwetey announcing Dr Cassiel Ato Forson as the new Minority Leader who is said to be assisted by Mr Emmanual Armah Kofi Buah as Deputy Minority Leader. This means Mr James Klutse Avedzi, the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, is no longer the Deputy Minority Leader.
The statement named a new Minority Whip in the person of Mr Kwame Agbodza who replaces Muntaka Mubarak. The First Deputy Whip remains Mr Ibrahim Ahmed and the Second Deputy Whip remains Comfort Doyoe Ghansah. The statement said the “new leadership would be charged to recommend consequential changes in the Ranking membership to the headquarters of the party for approval.”
Ahiagbah claimed that the NDC is divided against itself because they obviously need consultation, but somehow, the party leadership has refused to engage. He said they surely need divine intervention now
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