Vacant seats: ‘It's NPP fighting itself, winning and being happy’ — Manasseh Awuni

Ghanaian investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni has criticized the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for constantly shifting its stance on the recent vacant parliamentary seats controversies.

In a social media post on Wednesday, November 13, the journalist described the current legal battle as the NPP “fighting itself, winning, and being happy.”

“In 2020, the NPP side in Parliament had a commanding majority…the Speaker, backed by his party, ruled that an NPP MP who had declared his intention to contest the next election as an independent candidate should be expelled…and the NPP was happy,” he reflected.

In his post, Manasseh contrasted the events of 2020 with the NPP’s recent actions.

In 2020, the NPP pushed for the removal of one of their own MP who contested as an independent candidate supervised by the former Speaker of Parliament Prof. Mike Aaron Oquaye.

Manasseh points out that the tables have turned and now the past actions of the NPP have come to haunt them.

“The NPP side went to court, and the Supreme Court ruled that an MP who declares his or her intention to contest the next election as an independent candidate or on the ticket of another party should not be expelled from Parliament. The NPP was happy,” he remarked.

“If you look at this critically, it is the NPP fighting itself, winning, and being happy,” he wrote. “Be careful with the evil you plot or the injustice you support today, even against your enemy or arch-rival. Unlike the NPP, you may not win and be happy both ways.”