A Former Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Koku Anyidoho has criticised the Speaker of Parliament Bagbin for the way and manner he has handled affairs in parliament relative to the four seats that he declared vacant.Anyidoho expresses the view that Mr Bagbin's actions are pushing Ghana's democracy to its limits."Honestly, after almost 32 years of our 4th Republic, our democracy is really being pushed to its limits with what Bagbin is doing with his brazen partisan posturing.
He should not forget that nature abhors a vacuum," he wrote on his X page page.His comments come at a time when the Majority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin accused Speaker Alban Bagbin of supervising lawlessness by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) lawmakers.This was after he accused NDC MPs of engaging in lawlessness by occupying the side of the Majority in the House again during proceedings on Thursday, November 7.Addressing a press conference in Parliament on Thursday, November 7, he said "The speaker supervised chaos …clearly the NDC is on a war path, they want confusion and they want lawlessness in this country and all these are being supervised by Mr.
Speaker."The Speaker is setting the country on fire, we were disappointed with his non-reconciliatory posture during his press conference.
We call on him to demonstrate statesmanship, we want him to know that although we were not happy on the day he was elected, it wasn't the NDC that put him but members of our side."Mr Speaker is hurting democracy…how can the speaker say he respects the constitution, but he will not subject himself to the dictate of the constitution."Speaker Alban Bagbin adjourned Parliament indefinitely for the second time.