Former Majority Chief, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has supplied particulars of the circumstances that led to his resignation from the place on twenty first February 2024.
Based on him, the choice to interchange him with the Member of Parliament for Effutu, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, was influenced by choices made by the then-opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Talking in an interview with Asempa FM, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu recounted how some 80 MPs urged him to withstand his elimination as Majority Chief earlier than he was formally knowledgeable of the choice by the then-President, Nana Akufo-Addo.
He revealed:
When the problem began, about 80 of the MPs signed a petition and urged me to carry on, assuring me of their assist.
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Even within the assembly, earlier than the President arrived, some ministers knowledgeable me in regards to the President’s resolution and suggested me to not settle for it. Through the assembly, the President advised me that it was a choice taken in session with the social gathering.
Nonetheless, he added that after the President’s speech, he proceeded to resign from the place to keep away from any division inside the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
When he was talking, I wrote down a number of notes, and when he was achieved, I advised him that I had resigned. The room fell silent, and among the MPs felt that I had upset them.
What he defined was that the NDC, on the time underneath President Mahama, was but to call his working mate, however we had been sure that it was going to be Professor Naana Jane.
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The previous Majority Chief additional revealed:
So it meant that the NPP’s affect within the Central Area was diminishing, and we not had visibility, particularly because the Minority Chief, Ato Forson, was additionally from the Central Area. They, subsequently, felt the necessity to decide on somebody from the area.
Mr Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu added that regardless of his displeasure with the choice on the time, he prioritised the unity of the social gathering, noting that he would have been partly blamed for the NPP’s important defeat within the 2024 elections.
