Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Samuel Nartey George, has said that the minority in parliament thought the letter announcing the changes was fake until the chairman of the party (Asiedu Nketia) came out to confirm that they wrote the letter.
Sam Goege objects to the style in which the Minority leadership changes were implemented.
Given the caliber of the people involved, he felt that the entire process of dismissing the officials might have been done more efficiently through collaboration.
Sam George said “Many of us had eggs on our faces, we thought [the letter announcing the changes] was fake until [Asiedu Nketia] came to say yes indeed they wrote that letter. Even in Senior High school, the headmaster doesn’t sit in his office and just appoint who becomes head boy, right now they do manifesto, they do voting,
“I remember very well in that meeting of the 4th of January, this issue came up about how our leadership in Parliament is being selected or elected. You look at best practices across the world, caucuses actually elect their leaders and so we decided as a caucus to go ahead and put together a draft that would then codify on paper what the processes for the selection of leaders of our caucus should be. Unfortunately, we haven’t worked on it or carried it through and couldn’t get it ratified at the last congress.
“So today, it is left to the convention. Those who say that there is nowhere in NDC’s constitution where it says MPs must be consulted, there is nowhere in our constitution too where it says that the national executives should elect leadership for parliament. The convention has also been an engagement. We have run this by convention where the national executives had chosen, but they had engaged the caucus.
“Why you need to engage the caucus is to prevent what were are seeing now. Because what you need as an authority as a leader in Parliament is legitimacy from behind you. That legitimacy from behind you is from consensus. NDC Council of elders must step in quickly, and call the outgone leaders, I have been told the Council called members of the outgone and leadership and spoke to them. But I hold the view that the way to resolve this matter is first and foremost, within the next 24 hours, our Council of Elders calling the two groups, the Haruna Iddrisu group and the Ato Forson group into one room.
“Our leaders should call both sides and call the national executives, especially the national chair and the General Secretary and let us build a road map that takes the consultation that the national executives have done a step further of engaging the caucus.” He stressed.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Jospeh Asare
