The NDC Majority in parliament has slammed the Minority in parliament following their press conference yesterday, January 25, 2026.
In a statement issued on January 26, 2026, and signed by the Majority Leader, Mahama Ayariga, he reminded the minority that the Ghanaian people have not forgotten the severe economic hardships experienced under the NPP leadership.
Mahama Ayariga, in a statement, reminded the minority that no amount of political spin can erase the reality.
According to the Majority, the NPP minority lack moral authority to criticise the current government.
He recounted how Ghana’s financial system collapsed, with the cedi depreciating at unprecedented levels and inflation soaring.
Parts of the Majority statement read, “The Ghanaian people lived through one of the most difficult economic periods in our history, and no amount of political spin can erase that reality”.
The majority statement follows the minority press conference, where they accused the NDC government of only using the anti-LGBTQ bill as a political tool to win the 2024 general elections.
According to the Minority caucus, the NDC leveraged the legislation to win power but is currently seeking ways to dissociate itself from the law.
He highlighted that the NDC’s posture sharply contradicts its campaign rhetoric, citing the inclusion of LGBTQ-related content in the Senior High School curriculum.
Speaking to the media at the Minority Caucus’s Holding Government to Account press conference, Alexander Afenyo-Markin stated, “We hear His Excellency the President play on words to say that government was engaging in wider consultation to see how the law could be formulated in a better way. Really? Was it not the same law they said was okay to be passed?
When the Mighty Minority members decided through private members bill to now pin them to their own principles, suddenly after all the processes has been followed, and approval given and the motion was on the order paper, the NDC through its Majority leader found a way of using procedure to claim that there was no such approval by the Speaker and tried to scapegoat the Clerk of Parliament.
We hold the view that the NDC used the Anti-LGBTQ law only for power, and now that they are facing the reality, they want to find a way of running away from it. We will insist that they act by their own principle,” he said.
Also, the minority claimed Ghana’s recent economic gains have nothing to do with the John Mahama-led government’s competence.
Addressing the press on Monday, January 26, the Minority Leader asserted that the IMF program, debt relief, rising commodity exports, and reduced government expenditure are the key drivers of the economic improvements.
Afenyo-Markin stated, “We have been told that the economy is doing well. That is not in doubt, but the question is: is the economy doing well because there is prudent management of our economy, or is it that this government has introduced some social intervention programs that have, in themselves, created an opportunity for young, ambitious Ghanaians?
“We hereby submit that the so-called gains were not born out of the government’s competence in the management of our economy. Rather, the IMF program, debt relief, rising commodity exports, and reduced expenditure are the major reasons for the upswing in Ghana’s economy, not a re-engineering of the economy,” he said.