Deputy director of Communications for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Ernest Owusu-Bempah is optimistic that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will lose the 2024 general elections.[ads2]
According to him, the failure of the NDC Parliamentarians to dethrone Ken Ofori-Atta as the finance minister through vote of censure, is an indication of victory for the NPP in the upcoming general elections.
Addressing a press gathering in Accra on Friday, December 9, Owusu-Bempah said, “the defeat of the censure in Parliament by the Minority is a signal of the defeat in 2024 by the NDC.”
He added that, “they will will do all they can to run down this government, they will do anything within their power to convince Ghanaians with their vile propaganda but the people of Ghana will reject them in 2024 elections.[ads3]
“This is a sign written on the wall, telling the entire nation. Right now the Cedi is doing well against the Dollar, petrol prices are coming down at the pump, economic conditions are moving on despite all the global hardships and everything going on. It means that the Akufo-Addo government is working.
“We are a listening government, we believe in the people of Ghana who gave us the mandate and we are going to work. Come 2024 Insah Allah, we will break the 8.”
Ken Ofori-Atta will continue to serve as the Finance Minister after a failed vote of censure filed by the Minority to remove him from office.
On Thursday, December 7, the motion of censure filed by the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, and seconded by the Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak Mohammed, seeking the removal of the Minister of Finance was lost.[ads4]
This was as a result of failure of the motion to obtain the constitutional two-thirds of membership of the House.
After the secret balloting, done in the absence of the Majority Members (MPs), who staged a walkout to have nothing to do with the motion, 136 NDC MPs voted while there were no abstentions nor ‘No’ votes.[ads5]
