91 NDC Members of Parliament on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have signed a petition demanding for reinstatement of Honourables Haruna Iddrisu, Muntaka Mubarak, and James Avedzi as Minority Leader, Minority Whip, and Deputy Whip respectively.
The petition which started with 11 Core MPs from three regions signing this morning grew to 25, to 49, and 62 before a recent update indicates 91 MPs out of 137 have so far signed.
More Members are expected to sign the petition which presents a challenge to the legitimacy of Cassiel Ato Forson, Kwame Agbodza, and Emmanuel Armah Buah as new leaders to replace the deposed Haruna Iddrisu, Muntaka Mubarak, and James Avedzi.
So far almost all NDC MPs hailing from all the 5 Northern Regions as well as MPs from Western, Central, Ashanti Region, Greater Accra, Bono East, and Ahafo have so far signed.
A couple of NDC MPs from the Volta Region who signed the petition say they did so because they believe Avedzi James should continue instead of the New Armah Buah.
The few holdouts who are yet to sign the petition are mostly Volta Region MPs due to a disagreement within their caucus.
This move comes after it was revealed NDC 2020 Flagbearer and former President John Mahama rejected the move to change the leadership.
Journalist Kwesi Pratt revealed Mahama asked that the decision stall.
“The former president did not endorse this,” he revealed based on his impression from conversations he had with the top echelon of the party.
“I have spoken to many people, and from what I’m told unless those who spoke to me are a bunch of bloody liars and so on, the former president did not appear to be very happy about this arrangement,” Mr. Pratt said on Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana on Wednesday.
