A member of the NDC communication team, Mahmud Kabore, has chastised party members who are agitating over the minority leadership reshuffle.
The opposition party (NDC) has made changes in its parliamentary leadership.
The new changes include Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson replacing Haruna Iddrisu as the minority leader.
Kwame Agbodza takes over from Asawase MP Muntaka Mubarak as Minority Chief Whip, and Kofi Armah Buah is the new Deputy Minority Chief Whip.
The Asawase NDC members protested for the reinstatement of their MP, Muntaka Mubarak last week.
A section of the Muslim community in the Asawase Constituency over the weekend held special intercessory prayers led by an Imam for the area’s member of parliament, Mohammed Mubarak-Muntaka.
Reacting to these agitations on Oyerepa Breakfast Time, Mahmud Kabore said the NDC party has respected the Asawase MP a lot, therefore they should accept the changes.
“In 2004 the man, Muntaka contested for Aboabo Number 1 Assembly Member and lost it. When Dr. Gibril, the then MP for Asawase, passed on, the party rallied behind Muntakak, who was a grassroots member, over Dr. Alhaji Arif, who was a deputy youth national organizer. Immediately we form the 2009 government, Muntaka was made a minister and a cabinet member. The party has respected him enough. In fact, Muntaka became Minority Chief Whip in 2013, and this is his eleventh year. We have honored him, the party has respected him, why don’t you allow the man (Muntaka) to go home with dignity.” Kabore quizzed Asawase NDC members.
He explained that the Minority Chief Whip not a property of the Asawase constituency and urged the party members to support the new leadership.
“We can do away with Muntaka’s loyalty to the party even as a caucus leader.” But it doesn’t mean the office of the chief whip is a bonafide property of Asawase constituency. That office was not designated for anyone who becomes the MP of Asawae. So if all 274 constituencies have supported Muntaka for eleven years. It is time for Asawese to join others in supporting Kwame Aboagy and his constituency”. Kabore told Kwesi Parker-Wilson, the host of the show.
Source: oyerepafmonline.com
