Weak opposition will give NPP third term: Majority leader predicts
By Edzorna Francis Mensah
The Majority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin has asserted that weak opposition will give the governing NPP government the third term through Mahamudu Bawumia.
He accused the NDC of giving out false news in order to paint the Government black but it will not work for them from “their comfort” opposition for position come December, 7.
Addressing journalists in parliament on Wednesday, the Majority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, described the minority’s allegations against the government as misleading in respect to some international transaction.
According to him, “the contract in question must be an international transaction. That is where our colleagues should pay attention. It does not mean that every contract with a multi-year value should come to parliament. So they should stop misleading the public.
They should stop peddling falsehoods. Every government engages the private sector. The object of that is to create space for economic growth.”
He noted that, NDC Minority is on record as “recklessly scaring off the businessmen and where you know that what you are putting out is not true, what you are trying to do is to sabotage the economy.”
He however, encouraged the minority to argue based on facts and to refrain from spreading misinformation, especially during the election year for vote.
The Leader used the occasion to address several issues including the good message Dr. Bawumia is preaching as he tours Grate Accra.
He said Dr. Bawumia has been a proactive hardworking vice president, and “once the man is a hardworking person with a vision. It doesn’t matter which tribe or religion, so for the first time, a Muslim has been given that opportunity to rise to the highest level. A person from the minority tribe has had the opportunity to hold the flag of NPP”.
He said, the NDC has not given true meaning to diversity and inclusiveness and it’s obvious from their selection of their running mate. “We have demonstrated that and in so doing, it gives hope to many Ghanaian youths who have aspirations and dreams and will always show that Dr. Bawumia’s story says that, it does not matter which tribe and religion they belong to”.
He also talked about free SHS, and said, “today by the Grace of God, the free SHS was introduced, we have sustained it, we have our children going to the university who have benefited from the free SHS because the NPP believed in that dream of the Ghanaian youths who are poor from a vulnerable home and needs a helping hand.
So the free SHS is a critical intervention which our friends when they were in government said it was not possible but we said it was possible. When it comes to TVET, it wasn’t free but when we were doing the implementation of the free SHS, that’s when we implemented it and today, the government has added TVET to free SHS and our children now find themselves learning, training, becoming craftsmen”.
From: GBC Ghana Online
