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On 3 April 2024, Prime Minister Briceño, after the massive victory of his party in the March municipal elections, re-instated a minister to Cabinet and also gifted three more People’s United Party (PUP) representatives in the House with the status of ministers of state. The Press Release was tellingly honest in justifying the new appointments: “These adjustments and assignments come on the heels of an overwhelming mandate at the polls.” The result was that all 26 PUP representatives in the House are now ministers or ministers of state and so part of both the Executive and Legislative br...

They key changes of that constitution from the Independence Constitution of 1960, was that it endowed all executive power of the state in the office of the President of the federation, and no longer in Parliament. It literally turned the Prime Minister, into the President’s chief Adviser, and leader of his government in the Parliament.

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Professor Abubakar O. Sulaiman, the Director General of the National Institute For Legislative & Democratic Studies (NILDS), which is a part of the National Assembly of Nigeria, has described Ghana's former Deputy Speaker of Parliament and ex-Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Hon. Joe Ghartey, as a true Parliamentary Scholar…

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