{"id":469095,"date":"2018-03-02T10:10:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T10:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/03\/02\/power-pendulum-will-not-shift-from-nppndc-haruna-iddrisu\/"},"modified":"2018-03-02T10:10:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T10:10:22","slug":"power-pendulum-will-not-shift-from-nppndc-haruna-iddrisu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/03\/02\/power-pendulum-will-not-shift-from-nppndc-haruna-iddrisu\/","title":{"rendered":"Power \u2018pendulum\u2019 will not shift from NPP\/NDC &#8211; Haruna Iddrisu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Friday,  2 March 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>mynewsgh.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-03-02<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/37138895.295.jpg\" alt=\"Npp And Ndc\" title=\"Npp And Ndc\" width=\"295\" height=\"163\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Supporters of the NPP (L) and the NDC (R) pictured during party rallies<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1519985422_668_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Member of Parliament for Tamale South and Minority leader, the honourable Haruna Iddrisu has said the pendulum of political power can only shift between the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Mr Paul Adom-Otchere on Metro TV\u2019s Good Evening Ghana Tuesday night, the Minority Leader, who appeared on the show with his counterpart on the Majority side said the pendulum of power in Ghana politics will remain with the NDC and the NPP, in his opinion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026 In any case, the pendulum, the pendulum will have to shift and it can only shift between the NPP and the NDC\u2026 The pendulum doesn\u2019t forward and back\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>He was reacting to a question from host Mr Adom Otchere who asked whether there were any special privileges that came with being Member of Parliament and a minister in government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have played my part as a minister of the Republic consistently for 8 years and as Member of parliament. And now my joy is serving as MP and then working as an opposition party to give birth to govt\u2026 but in any case, the pendulum will have to shift, and it can only shift between NPP and NDC. The pendulum doesn\u2019t dance forward and back\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m enjoying my role as a member of parliament. Have not missed an opportunity to make more impact out of my work in parliament\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMPs face crisis of identity as to whether we are development agents or not. We campaign as development agents and come to parliament and turn it down due to our inability to honour the pledges that we make\u201d, he revealed.<\/p>\n<p>He said, in his opinion, Ghana could go back to the days \u201cwhen Ministers should be ministers while MPs should be MPs, we should choose\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Since the advent of the fourth Republic in 1992, power has alternated between the ruling NPP and the opposition NDC with \u2018third force\u2019 parties increasingly wielding little to no influence in the polls.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 2 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Friday, 2 March 2018 Source: mynewsgh.com 2018-03-02 Supporters of the NPP (L) and the NDC (R) pictured during party rallies Member of Parliament for Tamale South and Minority leader, the honourable Haruna Iddrisu has said the pendulum of political power can only shift between the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":469096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}