{"id":3265,"date":"2024-02-23T06:31:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T06:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3265"},"modified":"2024-02-23T06:31:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T06:31:13","slug":"timing-of-kyei-mensah-bonsus-resignation-surprising-atta-akyea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3265","title":{"rendered":"Timing Of Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu\u2019s Resignation Surprising \u2013 Atta Akyea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Samuel Atta Akyea, the Member of Parliament for Abuakwa South, has expressed surprise at the resignation of Osei Kyei-Mensah[1]Bonsu as Majority Leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, who holds the record for being Ghana\u2019s longest-serving lawmaker, formally announced his resignation during a meeting at the presidency on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His decision to step down comes amid growing tensions between the parliamentary group of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the national leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview with Accra-based Asempa FM on Thursday, Atta Akyea voiced concerns about the timing of the resignation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;He felt that given the current status of the caucus, the decision was inappropriate and any move to change leadership came too late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI was very surprised because I felt considering the times we are in, we can\u2019t do things like that. Because our situation is a bit precarious if you look at our numbers and that of the NDC. And I felt it was too late in the day to make changes to crash our unity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I was a bit surprised it happened,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-f0e32bcf6df63338b31fb3c29fedb938 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lm5Lo2c07kE?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After almost three decades, the Suame MP who doubles as the current Minister for Parliamentary Affairs has decided against seeking re-election in the upcoming national polls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amidst the controversy, some critics believe his resignation is necessary for the party to prepare the grounds for a smooth transition going into the campaign season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the likes of Samuel Atta Akyea believe the controversy around the resignation will be disruptive for the party&#8217;s business in parliament and going into the election<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Atta Akyea, the Member of Parliament for Abuakwa South, has expressed surprise at the resignation of Osei Kyei-Mensah[1]Bonsu as Majority Leader. Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, who holds the record for being Ghana\u2019s longest-serving lawmaker, formally announced his resignation during a meeting at the presidency on Wednesday. His decision to step down comes amid growing tensions between the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,18],"tags":[1001,1077],"class_list":["post-3265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-politics","tag-atta-akyea","tag-kyei-mensah-bonsu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3267,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions\/3267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}