Following a report in the ‘Daily Guide’ newspaper on March 11, 2022, that the Rt. Hon. Speaker, Alban Bagbin, had selected a “NDC man,” Kofi Attor, as acting Speaker, the Speaker’s office has issued a disclaimer.
“According to a communiqué from the Speaker’s Office, the ‘NDC guy’ in issue is a former Member of Parliament who now works as a Senior advisor in the Speaker’s Secretariat.” The Speaker delegated responsibility to him and his team as needed,” according to the statement.
“We would like to point you that Hon. Kofi Attor is a former member of Parliament who now works as a Senior advisor in the Speaker’s Secretariat.” The Speaker assigns responsibilities to him and the Staff from time to time In all these, he has never been assigned responsibility as deputy speaker and those who caused the publication to know this.”
The office of the Speaker thus advised the public to ignore the mischievous message.
“The said publication is just one of the mischievous attempts to court public disaffection and ridicule of the speaker and bring him into disrepute. The public is advised to ignore the mischief that was intended.”
