The Majority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin has told the Speaker of Parliament Albabn Bagbin to realise that it some a 5th column in the camp of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to vote for him to become the speaker.
A fifth column is a group of people who undermine a larger group or nation from within, usually in favor of an enemy group or another nation.
Afenyo-Makin says that there was no basis for the speaker to declare the four seats vacant.
Addressing a press conference in Accra on Friday, October 18, he said “There is nothing that supports their action and when you want to make your point Mr Speaker begins to threaten you.
“Yesterday, all of you saw the way he was threatening me, he became so apprehensive and called the Marshall on us. I think it was most unfair that after Mr Speaker had said all that he wanted to say he now was pushing me by rules, what rule am I supposed to respect? basically stopping me from speaking, I yielded to him because that is his platform, if parliament is all about the speaker he should take it.
“In any event, what Mr Speaker forgot yesterday is that it took a 5th column from us to make him the speaker, often he forgets and does the bidden of the NDC. If all the NDC members voted for him he wouldn’t be a speaker but we leave that to posterity and his own judgment.”
The Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin on Thursday, October 17 declared four seats in Parliament vacant.
The constituencies and the lawmakers are :
2. Kwadwo Asante, the current NPP MP for the Suhum constituency in the Eastern Region, who has also filed to run as an independent candidate.
