Pride and disrespect of MPs and appointees cost us parliamentary seats – Ahafo Regional NPP Chair

New Patriotic Party (NPP) Ahafo Regional Chairman Kwabena Owusu Sekyere blamed the party’s losses in the 2020 parliamentary elections on pride and lack of respect for MPs.

According to him, some MPs grew up and felt untouchable after winning the 2016 elections. And he believes that this change of attitude cost them the elections of December 7, 2020.

He added that the poor performance of the executive heads of metropolises, municipalities and districts (MMDCE) are also factors that have affected the parliamentary fortune of the party.

Speaking in an interview on Epa Hoa Daben’s political talk show with Don Kwabena Prah, Kwabena Owusu Sekyere said: “President Akufo-Addo has no problem but his nominations and his deputies are the cause of the problems. party. Their pride and lack of respect caused most of the deputies to lose their seats ”.

He explained that when they moved around their ridings, these MPs rolled the windows of their cars and ignored the same people who voted them to power. “They will ignore the people standing by the side of the road greeting them when those same people voted them into power and that is the sad reality. This is what touched us at the parliamentary level ”.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) both saw some of their MPs fail to return to the 8th Legislature because some lost in parliamentary elections, others lost in their primaries and others withdrew voluntarily.

A total of 111 members of the seventh parliament did not return to the legislative chamber for the eighth legislature in January 2021.

Of those 111, 78 were from the nuclear power plant and 33 were NDC deputies.

Now the 8th parliament has an equal balance of 137 NPP and NDC MPs with an independent candidate.