{"id":67471,"date":"2024-02-24T17:42:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T17:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/?p=67471"},"modified":"2024-02-24T16:04:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T16:04:23","slug":"video-kyei-mensah-bonsu-returns-to-parliament-refuses-to-assume-usual-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/video-kyei-mensah-bonsu-returns-to-parliament-refuses-to-assume-usual-seat","title":{"rendered":"[Video]: Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu returns to parliament, refuses to assume usual seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. <\/strong><\/span><b>The immediate past majority leader and MP for the Suame constituency, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, returned to parliament yesterday [Feb. 22], a day after his resignation as the leader of government business in the house. He refused to assume his usual majority leader\u2019s seat.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu tendered his resignation as the majority leader of parliament at a crunch meeting convened by President Akufo-Addo at the seat of government, Jubilee House, on Wednesday, February 21, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, many leading majority MPs have expressed surprise at the turn of events. The majority MPs had earlier served notice that they would not countenance any attempts from external powers to remove Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu serves as the chair of the Bawumia 2024 manifesto committee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\">Ghana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. The immediate past majority leader and MP for the Suame constituency, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, returned to parliament yesterday [Feb. 22], a day after his resignation as the leader of government business in the house. He refused to assume his usual majority leader\u2019s seat. Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu tendered his resignation as the majority leader of parliament [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":67470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[5092,5096,429],"class_list":["post-67471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-ghana","tag-ghana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>[Video]: Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu returns to parliament, refuses to assume usual seat - Ghana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The immediate past majority leader and MP for the Suame constituency, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, returned to parliament ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/video-kyei-mensah-bonsu-returns-to-parliament-refuses-to-assume-usual-seat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[Video]: Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu returns to parliament, refuses to assume usual seat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The immediate past majority leader and MP for the Suame constituency, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, returned to parliament ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/video-kyei-mensah-bonsu-returns-to-parliament-refuses-to-assume-usual-seat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ghana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-02-24T17:42:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2024\/02\/sm_1708777878.827945.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1366\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/video-kyei-mensah-bonsu-returns-to-parliament-refuses-to-assume-usual-seat#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/video-kyei-mensah-bonsu-returns-to-parliament-refuses-to-assume-usual-seat\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"[Video]: Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu returns to parliament, refuses to assume usual seat\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-02-24T17:42:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/video-kyei-mensah-bonsu-returns-to-parliament-refuses-to-assume-usual-seat\"},\"wordCount\":136,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/video-kyei-mensah-bonsu-returns-to-parliament-refuses-to-assume-usual-seat#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2024\/02\/sm_1708777878.827945.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Ghana\",\"ghana\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/video-kyei-mensah-bonsu-returns-to-parliament-refuses-to-assume-usual-seat#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/video-kyei-mensah-bonsu-returns-to-parliament-refuses-to-assume-usual-seat\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/video-kyei-mensah-bonsu-returns-to-parliament-refuses-to-assume-usual-seat\",\"name\":\"[Video]: Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu returns to parliament, refuses to assume usual seat - 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