Let NDC have peace; you even suspended your elected Paul Afoko and Kwabena Agyapong – Charles Owusu slams NPP

Former Head of Monitoring Unit at the Forestry Commission, Michael Owusu sees the NPP’s rantings over the recent change in leadership of the NDC Parliamentary caucus as hypocrisy.

Mr. Owusu applauded the opposition party for biting the bullet to make a move where necessary regardless of the agitations within the party, a move the Akufo-Addo-led NPP has failed to do.

He urged the Majority Caucus to rather focus on how to get the government to reshuffle ministers and appointment who have driven Ghana's economy into a ditch.

According to him, NPP lack the moral right to criticise the NDC for brouhaha surrounding the Minority leadership reshuffle since they did worse by sacking its National Chairman and General Secretary Paul Afoko and Kwabena Agyapong respectively.

Contributing to an Accra-based Peace FM's "Kokrokoo" show panel discussion, hosted by Nana Yaw Kese, Mr. Owusu told the Majority NPP MPs to back off.

"I commend the national executives. They've shown that they mean business and that is leadership because, you see, in as much as I agree with other people saying there was no consultation and that it would have been better if they had done a lot of consultations, which I agree, it doesn't take it away that they have shown that they are in for business,” he said.

To him, when he hears “the NPP talking about this, I ask myself are you [NPP] also talking? You were able to suspend an elected General Secretary and elected Chairman because you felt you had a vision, and in the NDC, when they felt that some things are not going well they have changed them. Does the leadership belong to a person? Is the Minority Leader someone's personal property?... The NDC, is it for Haruna Iddrisu? Is it for Muntaka?"

He continued, "even the NPP doesn’t have balls to make changes. You can't even do a reshuffle in your government and if someone is doing a reshuffle, you are complaining. How are you complaining?... You don't have the balls to do it, so allow the NDC to have peace and do their work.”

“Let the NDC have its peace. I commend them for that bold decision," he stressed.

On Tuesday, January 24, the opposition party informed the Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Alban Bagbin, in an official letter about some changes in its leadership in Parliament.

In the letter, the ranking member on the Finance Committee of Parliament, Mr. Cassiel Ato Forson has taken over from Mr. Haruna Iddrisu as the Minority Leader.

The Minority Chief Whip, Hon. Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka has also been replaced with Mr. Kwame Agbodza.

The matter has caused division among the NDC MPs in Parliament, with majority of the NDC members signing a petition to reverse the decision of the party leadership.