The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament Joe Osei-Wusu has revealed he
flared up when President Akufo-Addo refused to appoint him as a
minister.
The Member of Parliament for Bekwai told Starr Chat
host Bola Ray he had always eyed to don the cloak of a Minister, but
missing the train dampened his spirit.
“I was expecting to become a minister,” Osei-Wusu stated on Wednesday.
“I
was disappointed and angry,” he confessed, adding “And I made it clear
and wasn’t expected to be a Speaker. But God has a way of letting you
where you belong.”
Osei-Wusu, who is the chairman of the
Appointments Committee of Parliament, stated he eventually accepted the
position of a first deputy speaker after three rounds of pleas from
chiefs and elders of his hometown.
The lawmaker whose reputation
was on the line recently when the MP for Bawku Central Mahama Ayariga
accused him of being used as a conduit to bribe the minority on the
committee during the vetting of the Energy Minister, said his
relationship with the National Democratic Congress former minister has
never been smooth since.
He said he was satisfied with the report of the Joe Ghartey Committee which investigated the bribery allegation against him.
“I have forgiven him,” Osei-Wusu said of Ayariga.
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