Joe Owusu selected 1st Dep. Speaker; Fomena MP gets 2nd Dep. Speaker
Both parties agreed on their picks for Deputy Speakers
Jonas Danquah 
The leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have agreed on Mr Joseph Osei Owusu and Andrews Amoako Asiamah as First and Second Deputy Speakers of Parliament respectively.
The NPP side proposed one of its members, Joseph Osei Owusu, was the First Deputy Speaker in the 7th Parliament, while the NDC side selected Andrews Amoako Asiamah who is an independent candidate.
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This comes after hours of a closed-door meeting following the election of Alban Bagbin as the Speaker of the 8th Parliament.
Following that keenly contested election that was characterized by several controversial events that lasted several hours, many feared that there may be calls for separate elections to be conducted for the first and second Deputy Speakers instead of them being hand-picked as has been done in the past.
However, a crunch meeting with the leadership of the NDC and NPP in Parliament as well as General Secretaries of the NDC and the NPP in attendance, concluded that the Bekwai MP, Joseph Osei Owusu and Fomena MP, Andrews Amoako Asiamah be selected as first and second Deputy Speakers respectively.
