Muntaka says it took more than 2 weeks to convince MPs to vote for Bagbin

-Muntaka Mubarak has said that he spent more than two weeks convincing NDC MPs to back Alban Bagbin’s nomination.

-That, according to him, was necessary to ensure that everyone was spanked online.

-Alban Bagbin was elected President of Parliament on Thursday, January 7, 2021

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Alban Bagbin was sworn in as speaker of Ghana’s eighth parliament on Thursday, January 7, 2021.

He was elected the seventh speaker in the history of the fourth republic after a chaotic voting exercise in the chamber of parliament.

Muntaka spent more than 2 weeks convincing NDC MPs to accept Bagbin’s nomination
Source: UGC

The former Nadowli-Kaleo lawmaker on the Democratic National Congress (NDC) ballot won 138 votes against the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate, Professor Mike Oquaye, who got 136 of the votes.

Oquaye served as speaker of the seventh parliament.

Days after Chief Justice Anin Yeboah administered the loyalty oath and speaker’s oath to Bagbin, it has now emerged that it took the NDC leadership in Parliament about two weeks to secure the veteran lawmaker, the post. speaker.

President Akufo-Addo was sworn in, official photo released at the start of his second term

Talking to Joy news On Sunday January 10, 2021, Asawase MP Muntaka Mubarak said that much was done to convince to ensure acceptance of Bagbin by all NDC MPs.

According to Mubarak, he spoke with the 137 NDC MPs individually for two weeks to endorse Bagbin’s nomination.

“We were trying to make them understand that this was in our national interest to get a Spokesperson from the other side so that we can put a check on the executive,” he said.

In other news, the NDC said that it will not recognize Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as the president of Ghana.

At a press conference in Accra on Friday, January 8, 2021, the party’s general secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, said: “Let me say without equivocation that the NDC will not recognize Akufo-Addo as president of Ghana until the problems related to your faulty choices are resolved satisfactorily. ”

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The NDC standard-bearer in the 2020 polls, John Dramani Mahama, rejected the election result as stated by the President of the Electoral Commission (EC), Jean Mensa.

He filed a petition in the Supreme Court to, in his words, remove the doubts in the minds of Ghanaians about the credibility of the electoral process.

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