The National Democratic Congress (NDC), particularly its leadership in the Minority have been cautioned not to allow parochial interest override their responsibilities in Parliament.
Speaking on Joy News, the Executive Director for Africa Centre for Parliamentary Affairs (ACEPA), Rashid Dramani noted that Ghanaians are watching and judging the decisions being taken by the NDC, especially those on Parliament’s Appointments Committee and so if they take any action that does not augur well with the citizenry, it would have consequences.
“If they break their ranks and allow parochial interests — some personal interests to drive the kind of decisions that they make, they might as well forget the next election,” he said.
“But that is going to be dependent a lot on how they conduct themselves in parliament with the current mandate that is given to them,” he added.
The ACEPA boss said the NDC “is supposed to be a government in waiting and hoping that in four years’ time, Ghanaians will give them their mandate” hence the need to use the waiting period to strategise and plan for election 2024.
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