Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin has complained bitterly about the backbiting in the minority caucus in recent times.
According to him, the internal competition is affecting the caucus, as it has led to infighting and backbiting, which should not be the case.
Afenyo-Markin, who made this known in a speech addressing the minority caucus, indicated that instead of putting the majority on their toes, the internal wrangling has given the majority a field day.
Indicating that the majority keeps winning because the minority caucus is doing its job for them.
His speech during a meeting with his colleagues read in parts, “The Majority sits across from us with one agenda—to suppress our views, to silence our expression, to render us irrelevant. They plot each day how to marginalise us. And what are we doing? We are doing their work for them. We bicker. We backbite. We whisper in corridors instead of roaring in this chamber. We nurse grudges whilst our country bleeds.
Respectfully, this must stop. It must stop today.
I do not claim perfection. I do not pretend we will always agree. Democracy thrives on debate. Leadership contests sharpen our ideas.
Yes, we will disagree on how to achieve our goals. Yes, NPP MPs will support different candidates for 2028. Yes, we will have competing visions.
But we must never allow our internal disagreements to make the people of Ghana the collateral damage of our divisions”.
To him, it is about time the minority in parliament sit up and ensure that their responsibility to the Ghanaian people is handled with all seriousness it deserves in order to put government on its toes.
“Right now, as we sit divided, the government is running riot. They are mismanaging our economy. They are weaponising State institutions. They are persecuting our compatriots,” he said.
