Minority denies plan to walkout on Mahama’s nominees

The Deputy Minority leader in Parliament, Dominic Nitiwul has denied reports that the Minority intends to walk out of Parliament during the debate of the report by the Appointments Committee on President Mahama’s Ministerial nominees.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Members of Parliament boycotted all the sittings of the Appointments Committee which vetted some ministerial nominees.

Citi News has gathered that the Committee will present its report to Parliament on Tuesday with a recommendation for all the vetted nominees to be approved.

However, Mr. Ntiwul denied reports that the Minority is likely to stage a walk-out on Tuesday saying, “We haven’t taken that decision at all to walk-out of Parliament so I don’t know where that news is coming from.”

He added that “we have always maintained our stance that we will not take part in helping the government form the government because we believe that that will compromise exactly what we are doing in court. It will be suicidal on our part to be challenging the validity of someone’s election and at the same time, helping the person to form his government.”

According to Mr. Nitiwul, when the motion is tabled in the House on Tuesday, “there are several things that Parliament will be doing, it doesn’t mean that the Minority members will walk-out at all…there are several things that if MPs decide not to take part whether it’s a debate or something, there are several things that MPs can do.”