In Ghana, the governing National Democratic Congress stalwart and former Ghana Ambassador to the Netherlands, Dr. Tony Aidoo has slammed Minority Leader and MP for Efutu, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, saying his deeply held belief of being gentle contradicts sharply with his aggressive actions.
According to Tony Aidoo, Afenyo-Markin’s boisterous behaviour at the Appointments Committee of Parliament is very characteristic of the New Patriotic Party breed of politicians, saying the Minority Leader is suffering a cognitive dissonance.
“Afenyo-Markin's behaviour, excuse me to say, he is having a very tough case of cognitive dissonance”, Tony Aidoo said while contributing to a discussion of the recent happenings in parliament, particularly at the vetting of ministerial nominees at the Appointments Committee.
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"Cognitive dissonance in socio-psychological terms, says that when your cognitive elements appear to conflict, you are compelled to restore consonance by either eliminating or devaluing one of the elements that you believe is busy. And that is how Afenyo-Markin has been behaving," explained Dr. Aidoo.
First, Dr. Aidoo says he does not think Afenyo-Markin has realised yet that his party is in the minority so he maintains "a very, very" boisterous language, "and incredible enough, he will be the first to say 'I'm a gentleman, I'm reasonable' and that kind of thing and yet his behaviour doesn't correspond to the rhetoric that he wants the public to hear."
"Let me give you one historical test case involving me, JH Mensah, and Kwamena Bartels. In 2008 when Rawlings appointed me Deputy Minister of Defence, JH Mensah wrote to the then chairman of the Appointments Committee, Ken Dzirasah, that Ken Dzirasah must subpoena my personal confidential file from the University of Cape Coast.
"Ken asked him why, he said he just wants my file to be subpoenaed. He was a member of the appointment committee, he couldn't have the decency to confront me with any allegation during my vetting session because he left and when he was going he said 'you people go ahead and vet him, I have already voted against him.' That's not a honourable behaviour. You don't know me, you wanted my personal file, it wasn't given to you but you have made up your mind that you will vote against me. That's not the behaviour of a parliamentarian."
On Kwamena Bartels, Dr Tony Aidoo said the then Ablekuma North MP stood in Parliament and said he Tony Aidoo was disrespectful and that he had gone to insult then Speaker of Parliament, Justice DF Annan at the latter's office at the Osu Castle when the man had no such office at the Castle.
He said DF Annan would later console him that he heard the misrepresentation, as Speaker he could not join the debate and to cure the false accusation.
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