A member of the New Patriotic Party’s communication team, Ellen Ama Daaku, has launched a scathing attack on Speaker Alban Bagbin and the NDC MPs following the declaration of four seats as vacant, which has made the NDC the new majority.

Expressing her strong opposition to the latest development on Adom FM on Friday, October 18, 2024, Ellen Daaku described the Speaker and the NDC as a 'joke'.

According to her, no serious party, with barely six weeks until the general elections, should be jubilant over this situation. Instead, they should be campaigning vigorously to convince the populace and secure their votes for John Dramani Mahama.

“We have just six weeks until the general elections. Instead of the NDC MPs campaigning, they are happy about what has happened and will abandon their campaign to sit in parliament for the next six weeks to play around with the Speaker.

“What the Speaker is doing is a joke and no serious party would want to become the parliamentary majority with six weeks until the elections. They always fight with me when I call them unserious. Our [NPP] presidential candidate is busy campaigning on the grounds. Instead of the NDC MPs rallying support for their presidential candidate, they have abandoned the ship and are jubilating over needless things," she said.

Ellen Ama Daaku is the latest personality to express her views on the Speaker’s ruling.

The National Democratic Congress Members of Parliament, who until Thursday were the Minority Caucus of Ghana’s Parliament, are now the Majority Caucus.

The unprecedented move and change happened after the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, declared four seats in the House vacant.

It follows a move by the NDC MPs on the Speaker, based on Article 97 [1(g) & (h)] of the 1992 Constitution which states that “A member of Parliament shall vacate his seat in Parliament if he leaves the party of which he was a member at the time of his election to Parliament to join another party or seeks to remain in Parliament as an independent member; or if he was elected a member of Parliament as an independent candidate and joins a political party.”



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