Former Special Prosecutor has expressed that he was not surprised by the Speaker of Parliament, 's decision to declare four parliamentary seats vacant, following a petition from National Democratic Congress (NDC) MPs.
Amidu noted that anyone familiar with Bagbin's decision-making style, which he describes as "transactional," would have anticipated the Speaker's ruling on October 17, 2024. "Any objective citizen familiar with the modus operandi of the Speaker of Parliament in his usual vacillatory transactional decision-making since the rejection of the Government's 2022 Budget Statement and Economic Policy, the eventual approval of the same budget, the passage of the estimates, and the E-levy by Parliament, presided over by the same Speaker, would have predicted how the transactional chips were going to fall," Amidu said.
He added that Bagbin's declaration was aligned with the Minority Leader's request to declare the seats vacant, which would subsequently grant the NDC a majority status in Parliament, with 136 seats to the NPP's 135.
Amidu, a former Attorney General, further asserted that the Speaker's move to declare the four seats vacant would not stand when challenged in the Supreme Court.