The Minority Members of Parliament (MPs) on Thursday boycotted President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s 2020 State of the Nation Address (SONA).
Clad in black, the MPs chanted parts of the National Anthem as they walked out of the chamber shortly after President Akufo-Addo took his seat.
“And help us to resist oppressors’ rule with all our will, and might forevermore,” they chanted as they left the chamber.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) MPs last week announced that would boycott the 2020 SONA if government failed to release five per cent of the District Assemblies’ Common Fund.
Flashback
In 2013, the the New Patriotic Party (NPP) who were then the Minority in Parliament. boycotted the State of the Nation Address delivered by President John Dramani Mahama.
Their action was in line with their position not to engage in any act that would appear to give legitimacy to Mr Mahama’s presidency until the Supreme Court ruled on the petition brought before it challenging the results of the 2012 presidential election.
