Alhassan Suhuyini, a member of parliament representing Tamale North, has blasted the opposition party's national executive for interfering in parliamentary matters.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) national executives, in the opinion of the MP who feels attacked by NDC members anytime he expresses his opinions, has abandoned their responsibilities and are attempting to remotely manage the Minority Caucus in Parliament.
He thinks that rather than focusing on their responsibility to lead the party alongside party MPs, the national leadership turns around and tries to instruct members of the Minority Caucus on their roles in Parliament.
He claims that the executives should focus on their core responsibilities and worries that his criticism of the National Chairman, General Secretary, and other executives might lead to his falling out of favour.
on supporting rather than directing the work of NDC Parliamentarians.
He emphasised that the National Executives' present behaviour does not bode well for the party's prospects in the upcoming general elections.
"I have spoken this despite the possibility of perhaps being shunned by the group. But, Parliament is not run by party leaders. They are not picked to serve as Parliament's coaches. They are selected to lead the party in conjunction with Parliament. Hence, you anticipate the National Organiser, the Women's Organiser, the Chairman, and the Secretary to be assembling people on the streets to complement what Parliament is doing when you have debates in Parliament and the Parliamentarians win that discussion," Suhuyini said in Pan-African News.
If the NDC is serious about unseating the NPP in the general elections of 2024, he thinks that the behaviour of the National Officers has to alter.
The mobilisation and education carried out by police in the streets, marketplaces, and universities, he noted, would decide the results of the elections, not by Parliament or just by the effort of Parliament.
But what we have are like CEOs coaching Parliament from the bench, he said, and it won't get us to the finish line. And as I previously mentioned, I say this at the risk of occasionally being shunned, but our party leaders need to start waking up and realising that the effort of mere parliamentarians will not be enough to win the 2024 elections.
Moreover, it will be won by what they do on campuses, in marketplaces, and on the streets.
Mr Suhuyini raised this red flag after Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, National Chairman of the NDC, guided the newly elected national leadership to implement reforms in front of the Minority Caucus in parliament.
The sudden move left the NDC minority leadership in Parliament seriously perplexed, and former president John Dramani Mahama and other party elders intervened to sort things out.
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