Bagbin won speaker role by selection, not election – Mensah-Bonsu affirms

The New Patriotic Party(NPP) Member of Parliament for Suame Constituency, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, has denied public assertion indicating that, Rt Hon. Alban Sumana Bagbin won his role as Speaker of Parliament through election. 

According to him, Bagbin was awarded the role through consensus agreement end of day by leaders of the house which he was part.

He said, “As part of building a consensus, when we met, my first proposal to my colleagues was that this election has been truncated just as the first three attempts had been truncated, and we had to begin a new voting process.

“So that was the initial proposal. My colleagues went into the conclave and came to say that they objected to that proposal that we should do a re-run. So we were thinking through, and it was still in the process of further engagement that we came to the conclusion that where we are, let us adopt Bagbin as a consensus candidate.”

He as well indicated that, Alban Sumana Bagbin agrees that the NPP caucus constitute the majority in Parliament.

According to him, the decision by the Fomena MP to do business with the NPP caucus clearly indicates they have the majority numbers in Parliament.