{"id":3297,"date":"2024-02-23T16:37:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T16:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3297"},"modified":"2024-02-23T16:37:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T16:37:06","slug":"i-never-saw-it-coming-afenyo-markin-on-appointment-as-majority-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3297","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Never Saw It Coming\u2019 \u2013 Afenyo-Markin On Appointment As Majority Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The newly appointed Majority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin has said he never anticipated his appointment into this new role.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Briefing Parliament after his official introduction to the House as Leader of the Majority caucus, he said \u201cI never saw it coming.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added, \u201cit has been rough and sometimes it is as if there is no light at the end of the tunnel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His predecessor, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu had told all the New Patriotic Party (NPP) lawmakers and the entire Parliament to support him to deliver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was after he officially briefed the House and Speaker Alban Bagbin on the changes made to the leadership of the Majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI introduce to you Afenyo-Markin who takes over from me as Majority Leader,\u201d he said.<\/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-672e268b130c162bad3cf9912c594b18 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\/i-WzKpUc3-Q?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\">To the lawmaker, especially the Majority, he said \u201cSupport my successor to prosecute the remaining agenda of the government.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu further said on the floor of the House that his resignation as Majority Leader was voluntary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He thanked the Speaker Alban Bagbin for the cooperation that has existed between them over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThank you for the cooperation and collaboration that existed between you and I over the entire period that our paths crossed,\u201d he said among other things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has been kept as the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs despite his resignation as Majority Leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly appointed Majority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin has said he never anticipated his appointment into this new role. Briefing Parliament after his official introduction to the House as Leader of the Majority caucus, he said \u201cI never saw it coming.\u201d He added, \u201cit has been rough and sometimes it is as if there is no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,18],"tags":[968,967],"class_list":["post-3297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-politics","tag-afenyo-markin","tag-majority-leader"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297","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=3297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3299,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297\/revisions\/3299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}