Fomena Member of Parliament (MP) and Second Deputy Speaker, Andrew Asiamah Amoako is set to file a suit against Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin for declaring his seat vacant.

The leader of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Caucus in Parliament and Effutu MP, Alexander Afenyo-Markin announced this at a press conference on Friday, October 18.

Mr Afenyo-Markin stated that the Speaker's ruling declaring four seats vacant, three of which are occupied by NPP MPs and one by the National Democratic Congress (NDC), denies Fomena constituents a representation in Parliament.

“Indeed, I am in touch with honorable Amoako Asiamah and I am happy to even announce to you that he is also filing a separate action as a result of the conduct of Mr Speaker. Politically, what Mr Speaker has done is wrong and it doesn’t help democracy,” he said.

Speaker Bagbin on Thursday declared the four seats vacant on the basis that three of the MPs had crossed the carpet to contest as Independent candidates in the upcoming election.

But in Mr Asiamah’s case, he was crossing as an independent candidate to contest on the ticket of the NPP on December 7.

This will be the second time the Fomena seat will be declared vacant with Mr Asiamah as MP.

However, this time around, he risks losing his position as a Deputy Speaker in parliament too.

With three of the NPP’s seats declared vacant, the party is now the Minority in parliament with 135 while the NDC forms the Majority with 136 seats having lost Amenfi Central which has been held by Peter Kwaky-Ackah, now an independent candidate.

Meanwhile, Mr Afenyo-Markin has since announced that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) caucus would boycott parliamentary proceedings until their case at the Supreme Court which sought to prevent the Speaker's ruling on the matter is dealt with.