NPP will boycott vetting of Mahama's ministers
The NPP Minority in Parliament has resolved to
boycott sittings of the Appointments Committee of Parliament to vet
ministerial nominees, which is scheduled to begin on Thursday, January
24, 2013.
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The action is an endorsement of a decision taken by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) not to participate in "deliberations and decisions on matters which would evaporate upon the cessation of President John Mahama's administration".
That decision was arrived at a crunch meeting of the leadership of the NPP and the leadership of the Minority held in Parliament on Monday.
Following that meeting, the Minority leadership held a meeting with its members on the Appointments Committee of Parliament during which the decision of the party was endorsed.
A release signed by the Chairman of the NPP, Mr Jake Otanka Obetsebi Lamptey said the party stood resolutely behind the petition in the name of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and others
pending before the Supreme Court seeking to invalidate the declaration of the Electoral Commission making candidate Mahama the winner of the 2012 presidential election.
"We continue to do this because of our conviction that the weight of evidence when examined, would be consequently ceased. We are therefore of the opinion that the current Mahama's administration is temporary and transient and would not last beyond the determination of the case".
The release added that the party recognize that executive authority of Ghana was vested in the President and that all executive acts of government shall be expressed to be taken in the name of the President.
It added that acts of President shall be binding on the state except those acts on decisions pertaining to appointments and the continuation in office of persons appointed to assist the President in his administration.
Story by Emmanuel Adu-Gyamerah
