Ghana's High Commissioner Nominee to Nigeria, Mohammed Baba Jamal, has told New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for New Juaben South, Michael Okyere Baafi, to prepare to resign.

Speaking to the media at one of the polling stations during the Akwatia by-election on Tuesday, September 2, 2025, Baba Jamal, a former MP for the constituency, said his party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), would hold Okyere Baafi to his promise to step down if the NPP lost the election.

He insisted that the New Juaben South legislator must honor his word or face public backlash.

“He must resign; otherwise, we will all give him the necessary disdain and disrespect as a Member of Parliament,” Baba Jamal said.

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The former Akwatia MP stressed that Okyere Baafi should not have made such a promise in the first place since politics is full of surprises.

“We will show him serious disrespect; we will not trust him again… He came to do his work. As I’m speaking now, I have put my integrity on the line. I’m saying that I will be extremely surprised (if we lose). We have done our work. If he wins, fine. Because in politics, surprises will never end.

“So, if you come and say that you will resign, if that is what he said, I’m telling you we are going to hold him to it,” he added.

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Michael Okyere Baafi had earlier declared ahead of the September 2, 2025, by-election that he would resign from Parliament if his party failed to reclaim the Akwatia seat.

"If NPP loses this Akwatia by-election, I will resign as MP, mark my words!" GhOne TV quoted him as saying in an interview on August 31, 2025.

His statement came shortly after Energy Minister Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, popularly known as NAPO, assessed the performance of the governing NDC in its first eight months in office.

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