Madina MP elected ECOWAS Caucus Chairman

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Madina, Francis-Xavier Sosu, has been unanimously elected Chairman of the ECOWAS Caucus of the Africa Parliamentary Union (APU). 

The predetermination took spot connected Thursday, November 20, 2025, during a caucus gathering held alongside the 84th Session of the APU Executive Committee and up of the 47th Conference of African Parliamentarians successful Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Mr Sosu, who is besides a quality rights lawyer, succeeds Mali’s Alioune Gueye, who chaired the caucus for the past 2 years. 

New role

Having served arsenic Vice-Chairman earlier this year, Sosu present steps into the apical enactment role, a determination seen arsenic further grounds of Ghana’s increasing power wrong determination parliamentary circles.

Ghana’s delegation to the meetings was led by Second Deputy Speaker and MP for Fomena, Andrew Asiamah Amoako.

Other members included MP for Lawra-Nandom, Bede Ziedeng; MP for Akuapem North, Sammy Awuku; MP for Nkwanta North, John Oti Bless, and MP for Atwima Nwabiagya South, Shirley Kyei.

Before the election, Sosu addressed the APU Executive Committee, calling for stronger continental collaboration connected younker unemployment, greenish economical transition, and the harmonisation of nationalist laws to enactment the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).

He besides reiterated his long-standing advocacy for the abolition of the decease penalty, the criminalisation of witchcraft accusations—particularly to support susceptible older women—and the afloat operationalisation of the African Court connected Human and Peoples’ Rights.

Sosu pledged to prosecute important reforms wrong the ECOWAS Caucus implicit the adjacent 2 years and expressed gratitude to chap delegates for the assurance placed successful his leadership.