The new Majority Leader of , , has stated that he was approached to lead his caucus long before the 2024 general election.

According to the Member of for Bawku Central, the possibility of him leading the (NDC) caucus after the December 7, 2024, election was popular among MPs, including those from the New Patriotic Party (NPP), now the Minority caucus. "The suggestion for me to lead actually came to me even before the election.

Even before the election, I was approached by some people.

If you ask some of the people in the current Minority caucus, even when they were the Majority, they kept walking up to me to say, 'We hear that the thinking is that when the election is over and done with, you will lead the caucus,' and I am like, 'I don't know, I hear so also.'" "So even before the president thought about his ministers and who will go where, to tell you the truth, I had been approached, and I had actually seriously considered leading," he told Bernard Avle of Channel One TV on Monday, January 27, 2025.