Former Suame MP and Majority leader of the 8th parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu has revealed that he stepped down from being majority leader of the New Patriotic Party(NPP) to prevent disunity among members of the party.
In an interview with Asempa FM on Tuesday March 4, 2025, the former lawmaker revealed he was told about the then President, Nana Akuffo Addo’s decision to to remove him as majority leader. He also added that some the NPP MPs urged him to fight back, should that happen and they would support him.
Osei Kyei, however stepped down to avoid fueling the brewing division in the party. “I didn’t want to be the eye of any storm in the party. I felt I had had enough so I decided to resign and I said it there and then”, he added.
He claimed the decision to replace him with Afenyo Markin by Akuffo Addo was a strategy to solve the NPPs declining influence in the Central Region as Mahama was likely to choose Prof. Jane Opoku Agyemang who is from the region.
“Most MPs disagreed with this reasoning, but I saw where things were headed. Rather than make things more complicated, I stepped aside,” he added.
