Economist and statesman Kwame Pianim has given his assessment of Minority Leader Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin’s leadership of the caucus.

Speaking in a video clip from a TV3 interview shared on Facebook on Thursday, August 14, 2025, Kwame Pianim expressed his dissatisfaction with the conduct of Afenyo-Markin.

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Asked if the Minority Leader is conducting himself well, Pianim responded, “No.”

He asserted that the Minority Caucus was not performing its oversight role of the government properly.

“He is sitting near the heat; he decides. Politics is not easy. Afenyo-Markin and his group in parliament are facing the heat. They are responding to some of the governance errors of the government to protect your human rights, to protect my human rights — that is what their job is supposed to be,” he said.

Pianim, a leading member of the NPP, indicated that one of the reasons the Minority Caucus is not performing well is that it lacks proper leadership from the party, which should be working closely with its leadership in the House.

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“What has been lacking in the NPP is the centre that is not holding. If they have a good leader, in terms of a national chairman, who is advising, he will be telling them, let us do this, let us focus on this.

“So, when you are there and you don’t have those connections, that network, your messaging may go a little wrong,” he said.

He clarified that he does not mean the current chairman of the party is not a good leader, saying, “No, he is sick. He is not well. So, the 1st Deputy (Chairman) is now in the seat.”

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