Lawyer Francis Xavier Sosu has been appointed by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Caucus in Parliament as a member Appointment Committee preparing to vet President Akufo-Addo Ministers.
The appointments committee recommends to Parliament for approval of persons nominated by the President for appointment as Minister of State, Deputy Minister, Members of Council of State, the Chief Justice and other Justices of the Supreme Court and any other persons specified under the constitution or under any other enactment.
Mr. Haruan Iddrisu, Minority Leader, Alhaji, Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak, Minority Chief Whip, Mr. Mahama Ayariga, Sampson Ahi, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Alhassan Suhuyini, James Agalga, and others are on the NDC 13 member bench of the Appointments Committee against NPP’s 13 Members, totaling 26.
Lawyer Sosu was elected as the National Democratic Congress candidate for the Madina Constituency for the 2020 parliamentary Elections after getting 661 votes to beat his closest contender Sidii Abubakar, a former National Youth Organizer for the party, who polled 480 votes.
In November 2015, he lost narrowly in a similar primary against the then incumbent Amadu Bukari Sorogho.
Sosu polled 1,486 votes as against the 1,738 votes polled by Sorogho who had been representing the constituency since 2005 but eventually lost to Abu-Bakar Saddique Boniface.
In the 2020 Elections, Sosu beat the incumbent Member of Parliament, Abu-Bakar Saddique Boniface the former Minister for Zongo and Inner City Development by getting 62,127 votes against his 46,985 votes to be declared Member of Parliament elect for the Madina Constituency.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Kofi Atakora
