{"id":112560,"date":"2015-04-30T06:18:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T06:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=112560"},"modified":"2015-04-30T06:19:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T06:19:44","slug":"minority-leader-deserves-to-contest-unopposed-kwadaso-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/04\/minority-leader-deserves-to-contest-unopposed-kwadaso-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"Minority leader deserves to contest unopposed – Kwadaso MP"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Kwadaso, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto has supported calls for the Minority leader, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu to contest unopposed in the New Patriotic Party\u2019s (NPP) Parliamentary primaries.<\/p>\n
He said it is embarrassing that the party has left Mensah Bonsu to his fate to fight to maintain his position as the MP for Suame despite being an efficient leader of the Minority in Parliament.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”SxOzCtBMnWPwHO94bQ5D3v52VeEgxdFM”]\u201cI\u2019m very embarrassed for him to be speaking for himself. We should be speaking for him!\u201d he fumed.<\/p>\n
Kyei Mensah Bosnu has questioned why the leadership of the NPP is no longer preventing other party members from contesting sitting MPs who hold positions in Parliament.<\/p>\n
According to him, in 2000 and 2004, the then President John Kufuor intervened on behalf of J.H. Mensah and Felix Owusu Agyapong and has therefore asked the current leadership to formulate a policy<\/a><\/strong><\/span> which will bar any party member from challenging him in the party\u2019s primaries.<\/p>\n Speaking on Eyewitness News<\/strong>, Dr. Afriyie Akoto argued that Mensah Bonsu does not deserve this kind of treatment from the party since it is sending the \u201cwrong signal\u201d to Ghanaians.<\/p>\n He remarked that the Minority leader has great amount of respect from both sides of the House including the Speaker and \u201chis knowledge is immense and his performance is well above what anybody will expect a leader in Parliament to be.\u201d<\/p>\n