Power ‘pendulum’ will not shift from NPP/NDC - Haruna Iddrisu

Member of Parliament for Tamale South and Minority leader, the honourable Haruna Iddrisu has said the pendulum of political power can only shift between the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

Speaking to Mr Paul Adom-Otchere on Metro TV’s Good Evening Ghana Tuesday night, the Minority Leader, who appeared on the show with his counterpart on the Majority side said the pendulum of power in Ghana politics will remain with the NDC and the NPP, in his opinion.

“… In any case, the pendulum, the pendulum will have to shift and it can only shift between the NPP and the NDC… The pendulum doesn’t forward and back”, he said.

He was reacting to a question from host Mr Adom Otchere who asked whether there were any special privileges that came with being Member of Parliament and a minister in government.

“I have played my part as a minister of the Republic consistently for 8 years and as Member of parliament. And now my joy is serving as MP and then working as an opposition party to give birth to govt… but in any case, the pendulum will have to shift, and it can only shift between NPP and NDC. The pendulum doesn’t dance forward and back”, he said.

“I’m enjoying my role as a member of parliament. Have not missed an opportunity to make more impact out of my work in parliament”, he added.

“MPs face crisis of identity as to whether we are development agents or not. We campaign as development agents and come to parliament and turn it down due to our inability to honour the pledges that we make”, he revealed.

He said, in his opinion, Ghana could go back to the days “when Ministers should be ministers while MPs should be MPs, we should choose”, he said.

Since the advent of the fourth Republic in 1992, power has alternated between the ruling NPP and the opposition NDC with ‘third force’ parties increasingly wielding little to no influence in the polls.