NPP primaries: ‘I’m not seeking protection’ – Minority Leader

Minority leader Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu has denied reports that he is seeking protection in the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) upcoming parliamentary primaries.

According to the Suame MP, his advice on the need for the party to make efforts to retain its key personalities in the lawmaking chamber has been misconstrued.

“I have never asked anybody to protect me and I will never request for such a thing.

“I was asked about the rancorous nature of our primaries and I indicated that democracy everywhere is guarded by laws. And in the advance democracies, you don’t have a situation where at the end of the tenure of parliament, the floodgate is opened to allow unfettered contest; there is nowhere in the world where this system operates.

“You will have a situation where the members of parliament led by the leadership of the party in parliament would assess the performance of each individual Member of Parliament and we should have the same measure being applied in the constituencies too," Mensah-Bonsu told the media in Kumasi Thursday.

He continued:"You are blunting the cutting edge of your own party if every four years you keep peeling off the people who should be holding aloft your party in parliament".

He nonetheless insists he is capable of retaining his seat without any support and protection from the party executives.