Who becomes the next Speaker of Parliament? | Politics

Ghana’s fourth republican parliament was born on January 7, 1993 when the country returned to constitutional rule after a series of military interventions.

Since then, the country has successfully held eight presidential and parliamentary elections.

Article 95 of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana provides for the election of a president from among deputies or from persons qualified to be deputies.

When the President is elected from among the members of Parliament, Article 97 of the Constitution specifies that the President vacates his seat in Parliament, which triggers a by-election.

Furthermore, the role of the speaker of parliament in the fourth republican democratic rule and the country’s parliamentary practice has been monumental.

The first person to be appointed Speaker of the Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana was the late Judge Daniel Francis Annan on January 7, 1993.
He served as Speaker of Parliament from 1993 to 2001.

Prior to his appointment as president, Judge Annan served as a government member of the Provisional National Defense Council (PNDC) and also as president of the National Commission for Democracy, now the Electoral Commission.

On January 7, 2001, Mr. Peter Ala Adjetey, a private attorney and former chairman of the New Patriotic Party (PNP), was sworn in as Speaker of the Third Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana and served as Speaker of Parliament. from 2001 to 2005.

However, Mr. Ala Adjetey was replaced by Mr. Ebenezer Begyina Sekyi-Hughes as Speaker of the Fourth Parliament of the Fourth Republic during the second term of the administration of President John Agyekum.

Hughes served as Speaker of Parliament from 2005 to 2009.

In 2009, when the National Democratic Congress (NDC) took office, Judge Joyce Bamford-Addo became the Speaker of the Fifth Parliament of the Fourth Republic and also became the first lady to be Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana and served from 2009 to 2013..

However, during the second term of the NDC Administration, Mr. Edward Doe Adjaho was selected as Speaker of the Sixth Parliament of the Fourth Republic and became the first sitting deputy to be appointed Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana and was performed from 2013 to 2017.

In 2017, when the PNP took office, it appointed Professor Mike Aaron Oquaye, former Second Vice Speaker of Parliament from 2009 to 2013, former High Commissioner of Ghana in New Delhi, India, former Minister of Energy and Communications; former second deputy and former deputy of Dome Kwabenya, and former dean of the Department of Political Science at the University of Ghana as spokesman for the Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic.

His term as president of the current Parliament ends on January 7, 2021.

Who becomes the next Speaker of Parliament?

The names that could possibly be placed for the position of Speaker are Prof. Oquaye, who would repeat the story of the late Speaker DF Annan, if he takes a second term, Papa Owusu Ankoma, current High Commissioner of Ghana in London; Former Deputy Majority Leader and Former Sekondi MP; Joe Ghartey, former Second Vice Speaker of Parliament, former Attorney General and Minister of Justice and current MP for Esikado Ketan, and Mr. Ayikoi Otoo, current Ghanaian Ambassador to Canada, former Attorney General and former MP for Krowor constituency.