The Western Regional Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party, NPP, Issah Fusieni, has reiterated that all sitting Members of Parliament are voted for in the upcoming party’s elections scheduled for Saturday, January 27.
He described sitting MPs as the supporting pillars both in the region and at the national level.
According to him, these MPs play a major role in bringing about development in their various constituencies.
In an interview on the Western Echo Show, Mr. Fuseini advocated that to make things easier for the constituencies, incumbent MPs be maintained.
He said new MPs tend to find their feet in Parliament, and that hinders development.
“The sitting MPs are the strength of the party, and they are the strength of the party in the region. They play a major role in the region. Bringing developmental projects to the region is the key role of the MPs.
Even though you can say that the MPs are not developmental agents, they are the very people who push the agenda to the top for it to materialize. So if you go and put in a new MP who is now coming to be known, build a network, and all that, it takes time.
Sometimes, it takes four years before people get to know them.”
Mr. Fusieni noted that the region stands to get ministerial appointments in the next NPP government.
” The development in the region didn’t come because the President wanted to develop the region. Somebody has to push the agenda for the president to realise that, we need it. A clear example is the Takoradi Constituency.
Today, most of our MPs are closer to Bawumia’s regime, and I know we will get more cabinet ministers coming from the region when we break the eight”
