Vice President and presidential candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has thrown a jab at the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and its caucus in Parliament noting that the party and its members in the House cannot use political tactics to manufacture parliamentary majority for themselves.
Dr Mahamudu Bawumia speaking to a huge crowd in Nkawkaw, as part of the continuation of his constituency-based campaign tour in the Eastern Region on Saturday, 19 October 2024, said if the NDC wants to have the majority in Parliament, they ought to go on the ground to the polling station, to the constituencies, and campaign to win the required number of seats to constitute majority in Parliament.
“It is very important that you vote for me Dr Bawumia, but it is even more important that you vote for Joseph Frimpong because we want the parliamentary majority. The current state of 137 – 137 in the house has resulted in the NDC doing everything possible to frustrate government business.
“Two days ago, they did something in Parliament after which they claimed they are the majority in Parliament. I believe you have heard it. They only had a 24-hour majority, the shortest-living majority that I know of in history,” the Vice President and presidential candidate of the NPP remarked.
“I want to let the NDC know that if they majority in Parliament, they should come to the polling station. they should come to the constituency, win an election and then go to Parliament. You cannot sit in Parliament and manufacture a majority for your self. we will meet them at the constituencies, we will meet them at the polling stations,” Dr Bawumia further remarked.
“What i can assure you from what i know after visiting over 200 constituencies, campaigning on the ground and seeing the data, if we were voting today, the NPP would have a decisive majority majority, not a majority but a decisive majority in Parliament. We will win at the polling stations,” the NPP leader, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia added.
Background
On Thursday, 17 October 2024, the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin in a ruling following an application by the Minority Leader, Cassiel Ato Forson, declared four parliamentary seats vacant. The legislators and seats affected by the Speaker’s ruling were; Peter Yaw Kwakye-Ackah, MP for Amenfi Central in the Western Region, Andrew Asiamah Amoako, MP for Fomena, Ashanti Region (Independent), Kwadjo Asante, MP for Suhum, Eastern Region (NPP) and Cynthia Morrison, MP for Agona West, Central Region.
However, lawyers of the Majority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin proceeded to the Supreme Court on Friday, 18 October 2024 with an ex-parte application praying the apex court of the land to stay the enforcement of the ruling of the Speaker.
A five-member Supreme Court panel presided over by the Chief Justice, Justice Gertrude Torkornoo, granted the ex-parte motion and order the parties to file their statements of case within seven days to allow the court to deal expeditiously with the substantive application before them seeking interpretation of Article 97 (1) (g) and (h) of the 1992 constitution.
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