Constituents will accept my position - Mumuni
Speaking on Citi FM Friday, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP mentioned that he has duly paid his dues to his constituents and therefore his appointment which demands that he resigns as a MP will in no way affect the development of his constituency.
According to him, his constituents in Kumbungu “clearly will be quite elated about the prospects of me carrying the flag of our country, carrying their flag into the multilateral diplomacy which is really the mandate of the ACP".
Alhaji Mumuni also noted that he is inspired and humbled by the appointment “and I would like to justify that confidence.”
He pledged to justify the confidence entrusted in him by President John Mahama and other Heads of State of the ECOWAS region for his appointment and also promised to continue with the hard work and accomplishment of his predecessor “and I would like to really fit my small feet into the big shoes that he is leaving behind for me. For me it is quite challenging but I welcome the responsibility. It is service to my country, service to my people and service to my continent.”
Former Foreign Affairs Minister, Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni is likely to abdicate his Kumbugu constituency parliamentary seat to take up his new job as General Secretary of African, Caribbean and Pacific states.
The Member of Parliament for Kumbungu in the Northern Region, has been endorsed by Economic Commission for West African States-ECOWAS, to serve the unexpired term of Dr Mohammed Ibn Chambas as General Secretary of the ACP.
Dr Ibn Chambas was on December 20,2012, appointed as Joint Special Representative for Darfur and Head of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and African Union Commission Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.
The appointment of Alhaji Mumuni comes just a few weeks into his third parliamentary term.
Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni left parliament in 2004 as MP for Kumbugu to partner the then National Democratic Congress candidate, Professor John Evans Atta Mills, to run for the presidency.
“The job description has not been disclosed and it is difficult now to say whether the two can cohabit, but clearly when the details have been received, we’ll go into consultation with the leadership of Parliament, with the leadership of my party; the NDC, with government and we’ll try to define the way forward,” he said.
Ahead of that though, he says his new job is still service to country.
“I feel very elated, but above all I am humbled by the high level of confidence that has been placed in me by the President, His Excellency John Dramani Mahama and his colleagues and brothers Heads of States and Governments of the ECOWAS region”.
