NDC leadership in parliament is a failure –Sammy Gyamfi

The National Communications Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi, has accused some of the Members of Parliament (MPs) of betraying the party. He has also taken on the leadership of the party in the legislative house, saying they have lost their moral authority to lead and are not fit to sit on the front bench of the NDC side of the house.
“More importantly, it’s about time we understood, that we don’t have any NDC Speaker of Parliament. No, we don’t! We have a Speaker who rode on the back of the NDC into Office to pursue his own parochial agenda and nothing more. You trust them, at your own peril.”
According to the vociferous mouthpiece of the NDC, the MPs, despite the position of party leadership, brazenly ignored same, for their own good.
The National Communications Officer of the NDC, posted this statement on his Facebook page yesterday, after it came out that some ministerial nominees of the NPP government got the approval of the NDC side of the House.
In the post, which attracted huge attention on both social and traditional media, Sammy Gyamfi indicated that the comrades in the NDC have suffered a betrayal in the hands of “the Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Alban Bagbin, the leadership of our Parliamentary group, particularly Hon. Haruna Iddrissu and Hon. Muntaka Mubarak, and dozens of our own MPs.”
However, he urged his comrades that the betrayal they have suffered was what strengthens him to work hard for the great NDC to regain power.
Read the continuation of the Facebook post below
They brazenly defied the leadership of the party and betrayed the collective good for their selfish interest. And we, must not let them succeed in their parochial quest to destroy the NDC, the party that has done so much for them and all of us. The shame they have brought on the party will forever hang like an albatross around their necks.
These are hard times for all of us but we should not let the betrayal of a few quench our love for the great NDC. Rather, let it strengthen us to fight for this party. We all have an equal stake in this party. They are few, we are many. And we, can work together to rebuild the party from the ashes of 3rd March, 2021 which I call “Black Wednesday”- Our day of self-inflicted shame.
This is the time for us to insist on the right changes in the leadership of the NDC group in Parliament or forget about them completely.
The current leadership have lost their moral authority to lead and are not fit to sit on the front bench of the NDC side of the house. More importantly, it’s about time we understood, that we don’t have any NDC Speaker of Parliament. No, we don’t! We have a Speaker who rode on the back of the NDC into Office to pursue his own parochial agenda and nothing more. You trust them, at your own peril.
The hypocrites can choose to remain quiet or even condemn us for speaking up, so they can remain in the good books of the renegades. But I and all who are pained by this act of betrayal will not keep quiet, because we don’t fear anyone and don’t wish to be in their good books. If they can defy the party leadership and interest openly and subject all of us to public ridicule, then they can and must also be called out openly. The NDC party is supreme and it must be cleansed.
Speak up, we can and must! And let nobody stand in our way. But, when all is said and done, let’s work for the NDC with all our might and strength. Quench not your love for the party. Hope must not die. This storm shall pass. The NDC will survive and shall bounce back stronger for victory. So, I say to you, be strong!
Background
The Appointments Committee of Parliament had presented a report on 13 of the ministerial nominees they had vetted. Out of the number, the report said 10 were approved by consensus, but three – Hawa Koomson, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah and Dr Akoto Afriyie had a majority decision.
The ten included the trio, who were and would continue to be in charge of the security of the state. They are the National Security, Defence and Interior; Kan Dapaah, Dominic Nitiwul, and Ambrose Dery respectively.
The NDC’s position, though not official, had been for those three minister-designates not to be approved by the minority side, based on the violence that ‘decorated’ the December 2020 general elections, and the icing on the cake – was the presence of armed military men in the Chamber on the eve of January 7, 2021.
Regardless, at midnight Wednesday, all these nominees were approved by consensus for the ten and by majority votes for the three, when the Committee’s report was submitted to the Plenary.
With the outcome of the voting for the three, namely Hawa Koomson, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah and Dr Akoto Afriyie, it showed that some MPs on the side of the NDC voted for them.