The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Dombo youth group in Tamale has tipped Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye to be the next Speaker of Parliament.
The group’s Chairman, Abdul Majeed Fuseini in a Citi News interview described the former lawmaker for Dome-Kwabenya constituency in the Greater Accra Region as a time tested politician capable of superintending over the next Parliament.
He pleaded with President elect, Nana Akufo-Addo to assign Prof. Oquaye to the top job of Speaker of the nation’s August House.
Abdul Majeed Fuseini recalled Professor Oquaye’s achievements as a former Deputy Speaker of Parliament and concluded that he was better placed for the Speakership.
He congratulated President elect Nana Akufo-Addo on his landslide victory at the just ended presidential and parliamentary elections.
The celebrated good old law Professor Oquaye was a Minister of Energy and Communications from 2005 to 2007.
He deepened Ghana and India’s bilateral relations during his tenure as Ghana’s High Commissioner to India from 2002 to 2004.
Professor Oquaye has written and published journals on several topics including ‘Politics In Ghana 1982-1992,’ culture, conflict and traditional Authority in Africa: a Ghanaian perspective in the Political economy of peace and security in Africa, human rights in Africa in the new global order: a dilemma as well as civil society and the domestic policy environment in Ghana.
Professor Oquaye is a product of the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies and University of Ghana, Legon.
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