The Dombo youth group, which is affiliated to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Tamale in the Northern Region, has declared its support for Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye as a suitable candidate for speaker of Ghana\u2019s next parliament.<\/p>\n
The group\u2019s Chairman, Abdul Majeed Fuseini, in a Citi News<\/strong> interview described the former lawmaker for Dome-Kwabenya constituency in the Greater Accra Region, as a time-tested politician capable of superintending over affairs in the next Parliament.<\/p>\n He pleaded with President-elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, to assign Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye to the top job of Speaker of the nation\u2019s August House.<\/p>\n Abdul Majeed Fuseini recalled Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye\u2019s achievements as a former Deputy Speaker of Parliament and concluded that he was better placed for the role in the legislative body.<\/p>\n He congratulated President-elect Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo on his victory in the just ended Presidential elections and expressed hope he was going to perform well in office.<\/p>\n Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye was a Minister of\u00a0Energy and Communication from 2005 to 2007.<\/p>\n He deepened Ghana and India\u2019s bilateral relations during his tenure as Ghana\u2019s High Commissioner to India from\u00a0<\/strong>2002 to 2004.<\/p>\n Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye has written and published journals on several topics including politics In Ghana 1982-1992, culture, conflict and traditional Authority in Africa:\u00a0 a Ghanaian perspective in the Political economy of peace and security in Africa, human rights in Africa in the new global order:\u00a0 a dilemma as well as civil society and the domestic policy environment in Ghana.<\/p>\n Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye is a product of the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies and the\u00a0University of Ghana, Legon.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Dombo youth group, which is affiliated to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Tamale in the Northern Region, has declared its support for Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye as a suitable candidate for speaker of Ghana\u2019s next parliament. The group\u2019s Chairman, Abdul Majeed Fuseini, in a Citi News interview described the former lawmaker for Dome-Kwabenya […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[270,311,14301,313],"class_list":["post-276957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-ghana-parliament","tag-mike-oquaye","tag-new-speaker-of-parliament","tag-speaker-of-parliament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}