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Mahama Ayariga, a member of parliament (MP) for the NDC of Bawku Central in the northern region, wants the speaker of parliament to annul the ruling New Patriotic Party (PNP) request to declare Fomena’s seat vacant in the House.
The constituency’s incumbent MP, Andrew Amoako Asiamah, was a member of the PNP who ran as an independent candidate in the upcoming elections.
As a result, the PNP wrote to the Speaker of Parliament to demand the invocation of his party’s constitutional provision vacating a parliamentary seat after a member of the House leaves the party that sponsored his candidacy for the House.
But according to the Bawku Central legislator, the PNP’s request has no constitutional basis.
“What the constitution stipulates is that if you are a member of Parliament and you come to Parliament and you want to cross the carpet from the party on whose ticket you came to Parliament to another party, then you lose your seat and on that basis,” he told Citi News.
He argued that the deputy had the right to sit in parliament “and participate in the deliberations in the house until the end of his term as a deputy.”
Ayariga also insisted that “the PNP has no power or no power to withdraw it from Parliament.”
In addition, he suggested that the PNP “only wants to intimidate and scare him into withdrawing his nomination as an independent candidate in his constituency and that has nothing to do with us here.”
— citinewsroom
