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President Akufo-Addo has congratulated former member of Parliament for Nadowli Constituency, Alban Bagbin for assuming office as the speaker for the 8th Parliament.
Alban Bagbin was elected the speaker for the new Parliament after defeating the immediate past speaker Professor Mike Aaron Oquaye in a contest on Thursday dawn.[ads2]
Mr. Bagbin as become the seventh speaker of Parliament since 1992.
Congratulating Alban Bagbin, President Akufo-Addo said, “I must, at the outset, express my warm congratulations to my good friend and colleague of many years in this House, the Rt. Hon. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, on his assumption of office as the Speaker of the Eighth Parliament of the 4th Republic”[ads3]
“Nearly three decades of devoted service to Parliament by you has culminated in this moment, which has seen your elevation to the third great office of state of our nation. Together, you and I will be chartering new territory in the governance and politics of the 4th Republic, for this is the first time in the life of this Republic that a President from one party will be obliged, by the exigencies of the moment and the will of the people, to work, in all sincerity and co-operation, with a Speaker of Parliament from another party. I am confident that both of us will be guided in our relationship by the supreme interest of our people in ensuring good governance in the ordering of the affairs of state. I want to assure you of my wholehearted determination to work with you to advance the peace, progress and prosperity of the Ghanaian people. Once again, many congratulations to you and the re-elected and new Members of Parliament.”[ads5]