Member of Parliament for Tamale South and Minority leader, the honourable Haruna Iddrisu has said the pendulum of political power can only shift between the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Speaking to Mr Paul Adom-Otchere on Metro TV’s Good Evening Ghana Tuesday night, the Minority Leader, who appeared on the show with his counterpart on the Majority side said the pendulum of power in Ghana politics will remain with the NDC and the NPP, in his opinion.
“… In any case, the pendulum, the pendulum will have to shift and it can only shift between the NPP and the NDC… The pendulum doesn’t forward and back”, he said.
He was reacting to a question from host Mr Adom Otchere who asked whether there were any special privileges that came with being Member of Parliament and a minister in government.
“I have played my part as a minister of the Republic consistently for 8 years and as Member of parliament. And now my joy is serving as MP and then working as an opposition party to give birth to govt… but in any case, the pendulum will have to shift, and it can only shift between NPP and NDC. The pendulum doesn’t dance forward and back”, he said.
“I’m enjoying my role as a member of parliament. Have not missed an opportunity to make more impact out of my work in parliament”, he added.
“MPs face crisis of identity as to whether we are development agents or not. We campaign as development agents and come to parliament and turn it down due to our inability to honour the pledges that we make”, he revealed.
He said, in his opinion, Ghana could go back to the days “when Ministers should be ministers while MPs should be MPs, we should choose”, he said.
Since the advent of the fourth Republic in 1992, power has alternated between the ruling NPP and the opposition NDC with ‘third force’ parties increasingly wielding little to no influence in the polls.
Source: mynews
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Ndc will not come again, we don't like you, wicked and evil people I hope and pray Papa Kwesi Nduom's PPP could work harder to overtake the ndc for us to have a decent politics attractive to everyone in our continent. We can't afford the NPP to repair the country for thi*ves to come and create l000t and share and send us 100 years back, just look at them, how far have their lives been even after ste*ling our resources? They ste*l just to eat good food, build mansions, cars and that's the ndc way of life nothing in head. They can't even point only one intervention that helped the people for the 8 years in power but these kriminals are crying for power. I weep for those who vote for these people and I pray to the Almighty God to open their eyes to see the evil in those they vote to represent them so they will see the good way to follow. Even the founder has despised them, I remember he made a remark if he could become president of Ghana for just one year, people would have seen how Papa JJ would have persecuted these kriminals in his party who have stolen from the state and making noise and hiring kriminals to distabilize this country. Onyame betua moka!
that is why they (ndc and npp) always dance one corner with our heads. don't worry a time is coming and we will see if ur statement still holds.