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Majority leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has cautioned that Ghana has only one elected President in the person of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
The country, he said, has one executive President and stressed that no person can pretend to share power with this President whether such a person is a former president or a future president.
Mr. Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu was responding to a call by the Member of Parliament for Asuogyaman constituency, Thomas Apem Narko during presentation of next week’s Business Statement on Friday, November 4.
The NDC MP had appealed to the Parliament to cut down the number of days it sits from four to two.
This, he said, should be in line with a proposal by former President John Dramani Mahama to organizations to allow those who can work from home to do so because of the hike in prices of petroleum products.
Hon. Apem Nayrko implored leadership of the House to consider scheduling the House to sit for two days instead of four in order to spare members the cost of fuel.
The Majority leader rebuffed the call and recounted that in 1998 former President Jerry Rawlings delivered the State of the Nation Address and then opposition leader, John Agyekum Kufuor commented on it.
According to him, President Rawlings was quick to ask Mr. Kufuor to recognize there was only one president in the country.
“May I sound and send the same message to my colleagues? There is only one President who has been voted for and there cannot be any pretensions about that,” he stressed.
