The National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi, has justified his recent scathing critique of the leadership of his party’s caucus in Parliament and the Speaker.
His critique came in the aftermath of the approval of some ministerial nominees.
In a Facebook post recently, Mr Gyamfi, without mincing words, described the Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu; the Minority Chief Whip, Mohammed-Mubarak Muntaka,and the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, as having betrayed the party for their selfish interests.
Responding to his critics, Mr Gyamfi said,“I understand fully that as a member and leader of the party, [you would agree that] it is not every issue that you discuss in the open but certain issues, in my opinion, I shared, because of the far-reaching consequences of such issues on the party, on its future and its foundation.
“Sometimes it becomes important that somebody will have to sacrifice.In my humble view, I may be wrong because at a point nobody wants to step on anyone’s toes or make an enemy out of a friend, but there are times when somebody will have to sacrifice for the collective good.
“You could see that we were at a point of need and our ambitions and everything were reliant on our MPs, so we were atcertain crossroads, we were on the brinks and needed something to rejuvenate us for the four-year journey ahead of us in our reorganisation processes.
So when everything that our leadership did behind closed doors, which I can’t disclose, was brazenly and openly set aside while a consensus was reached, and you look at the impact it will have on the party, I felt that at some point somebody needed to be called out,” Mr Gyamfi pointed out.
He averred that he held no personal grudge against anyone in the NDC leadership in Parliament, but would still stand by his actions as a well-thought-out act that was aimed at the greater good of the NDC. –ghanaweb.com
