Minority Caucus exposes glaring contradiction in ruling party’s position on flagship anti-LGBTQ+ legislation
There is a particular kind of political hypocrisy that transcends ordinary spin and enters the territory of outright public deception. The NPP Minority Caucus in Parliament believes the National Democratic Congress has crossed that line, and it is not holding back in saying so.
In a formal statement released on June 4, 2026, the Minority Caucus catalogued in clinical detail what it describes as the NDC’s extraordinary reversal on the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill β a reversal that spans from furious demands for presidential assent in 2024 to a quiet rewriting of the same legislation in 2026.
“It is therefore both strange and hypocritical for the NDC to have demanded immediate presidential assent to the 2024 Bill, only to return to Parliament and substantially rewrite that same Bill upon assuming office,” the statement said.
The timeline is striking. In 2024, as the Bill sat awaiting assent from then-President Akufo-Addo, the NDC mounted a sustained public campaign condemning the delay. They called it a moral failure, accused the NPP of sympathising with LGBTQ+ interests, and mobilised religious leaders to pile pressure on the presidency. The NDC used the issue to win votes, explicitly arguing that only an NDC government would ensure the Bill became law.
Now in government, the same NDC has presided over a Parliament that has introduced 31 amendments to the very Bill they once swore to protect. The Minority says this sequence of events is not a matter of interpretation, it is documented in Hansard and the public record.
The NPP’s position is that the NDC’s conduct amounts to a systematic exploitation of Ghanaian public sentiment on a matter of deep cultural and religious significance, followed by a quiet retreat once electoral power had been secured.
The Minority Caucus is demanding that the 2024 Bill, in its original form, be restored and transmitted for presidential assent. Anything less, they say, will confirm what the NPP has long argued: that on this matter, the NDC cannot be trusted.