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The outspoken NDC Member of Parliament for the Lower Manya Constituency, Michael Teye Nyaunu, has been given a huge international appointment. Hon Teye Nyaunu has been elected to serve as a Deputy Speaker in the Economic Community for West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament in neighbouring Nigeria. Citi News gathers that colleague MPs in the Abuja-based Regional Legislature voted the outspoken Ghanaian MP to the post of Deputy Speaker at a recent meeting of the House in the Nigerian Capital. Hon Nyaunu�s elevation � which is yet to be formally announced in the Ghanaian Legislature, which resumed sitting on Monday August 22 � comes at the time the Lower Manya MP is facing strong opposition back home over critical comments he has made about President John Mills over the years. Citi News gathers that a number of NDC Members are seriously jostling to unseat the fifth-term-seeking MP, whose criticism of the Mills regime has, over the years, become somewhat legendary. The name Michael Teye Nyaunu became a household name in Ghana after he granted an exclusive interview to Citi News Reporter Richard Sky in 2008 and called on the NDC to withdraw the Mills ticket for that year�s Presidential polls, saying the Law Professor was too sick and noticeably weak to lead the party to victory. His call for a fresh national congress to elect a new flag bearer for the NDC ahead of the 2008 polls provoked widespread anger among his party members and set him on a seemingly never-ending battle with loyalists of the former law lecturer. Recently, the Lower Manya MP made the news headlines again when he publicly accused Prof Mills of failing to deliver on campaign promises of the party and called on NDC delegates not to renew the President�s mandate to lead the NDC. However, his preferred flagbearer candidate, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, managed a measly 3.14% of the total votes cast at the party�s July 8 to 10 National Delegates� Congress at Sunyani.