Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu Resigns As Majority Leader

The Member of Parliament for Suame constituency and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs , Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has voluntarily stepped down as the Majority Leader of the House.

The move comes after a crunch meeting between the Majority Caucus in Parliament and President Akufo-Addo.

At the meeting on Wednesday in the Jubilee House, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) expressed it desire to have fresh blood in Parliament.

According to sources at the meeting held at the Jubilee House’s banquet hall in Accra, the Suame Member of Parliament voluntarily decided to step down as the Majority Leader.

The sources say, there was a standing ovation by the persons at the Wednesday’s meeting.

President Akufo-Addo then eulogised and thanked him for his long and dedicated service in Parliament.

Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu’s name has been pencilled down by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for appointment as the head of the party’s Election 2024 policy and manifesto team.

He has served in the ranks of the NPPs parliamentary leadership for about 23 years. In this period, he was Majority Leader for 15 years and two months, deputy leader for four years and chief whip for four years.

Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu takes up the vital role of leading “Team Bawumia” to fashion out the NPP’s manifesto around the vision of the party’s presidential candidate, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.

This will, in turn, be sold to the people of Ghana in the run-up to the 7 December 2024 general election.

 

 

New leader
The role of Majority Leader following the exit of Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu is likely to be filled by Alexander Afenyo-Markin, the current deputy Majority Leader and MP for Effutu in the Central Region.

The choice of Afenyo-Markin as Majority Leader is seen as very strategic as he is in his early forties and hails from the Central Region.

Political analysts also point out that the NPP vice-presidential running mate is likely to come from the Ashanti Region and that the NDC’s John Mahama is also poised to announce Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, who is from the Central Region, as his running mate.

The importance of the Central Region as a swing region, especially in determining which party holds a majority of parliamentary seats, makes Afenyo-Markin’s elevation one of the most strategic decisions the NPP will make in the lead-up to the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections.

 

 

 

 

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