The Majority in Parliament has blamed Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin for the delay in the delivery of the 2022 State of the Nation address.
According to the Deputy Majority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, the Speaker and the leadership of Parliament have not been able to communicate and give the President the green light for the presentation.
The President was originally expected to deliver the State of the Nation Address on March 3, 2022, but that has been postponed indefinitely amid claims by the Minority in Parliament that the President is unable to honour the constitutional obligation because of the mismanagement of the economy.
Answering questions in Parliament on Friday, March 18, 2022, during the consideration of the business statement for next week, the Effutu MP fingered the absence of the Speaker for medical treatment in Dubai as the reason for the delay in the address.
“Our duty as a House is to program Mr President to come. It’s not Mr President who is refusing to come. Mr President is ready, it is for our leadership and Mr Speaker to program him. Mr Speaker is unavoidably absent, so, the leadership of the House and the Speaker should program the President to come and give the message on the state of the nation,” he said in Parliament on Friday, March 18, 2022.