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General news for Friday, December 11, 2020
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
2020-12-11
The leadership of the New Patriotic Party (PNP) is expected to hold a crisis meeting today, December 11, 2020, on the outcome of the December 7 elections.
Majority Leader of the Seventh Parliament, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, told Rainbow Radio that the meeting will assess the party’s overall performance and understand why NPP lost many legislative seats.
Earlier, NPP Secretary General John Boadu told Peace FM that regional executives are expected to report back to the meeting with the result of the surveys and submit reports for reading.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, and other senior party executives are expected to be at the meeting.
The NPP lost more than 30 seats in Parliament, going from 169 seats in the 7th Parliament to 137 when the 8th Parliament resumes next year.
Majority Leader in the 7th Parliament, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has confessed that the party did not expect a massive reduction of seats in the Legislature.
Meanwhile, the NDC is contesting the presidential and parliamentary results as flawed and stolen for the current PNP.
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