The National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiadu Nketiah, has called on the party’s parliamentarians to boycott any emergency meeting of Parliament, saying such sessions are meant to push the corrupt agenda.

Addressing their supporters in the Western region on Saturday, November 16, Asiedu Nketiah said that with the 2024 general elections approaching, the majority group has no real justification to convene Parliament except to pursue shady goals.

“… No MP of the NDC should set foot in the Parliament if they want, they can go and burn the sea. There is no work in the Parliament that can be called an emergency. There is no emergency. They want Parliament to be recalled only for them to continue the rampant corruption they have been perpetrating for the last eight years.

“They want to further the corruption with three weeks to elections. We will not go today and tomorrow. Therefore, the judges should say what they want, Parliament also has its own rules and we will work accordingly,” he said.

Johnson Asiedu Nkatiah’s appeal comes after the Supreme Court on Tuesday, November 12, annulled the decision taken by the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, to declare four parliamentary seats vacant.
The decision was in favor of a challenge brought by Majority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin.
In a detailed decision issued on Thursday, November 14, the five judges who supported the majority leader said that a parliamentary seat can only be considered vacant if a lawmaker changes political parties while maintaining his role in Parliament.

However, two judges dissented, arguing that the Supreme Court had no jurisdiction to decide on the matter, thus highlighting a difference in interpretation regarding the Court’s powers in relation to these matters.