A communications team member of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) party has described John Dramani Mahama’s call for the president to reshuffle his ministers, as a “waste of time”.
Mr Chris Dugan, speaking on Angel FM’s Anↄpa Bↄfoↄ morning show Wednesday, August 24, 2022, admitted that the 2020 NDC flagbearer’s call was necessary given the “abysmal” performance of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government ministers.
However, he would have held back from same if he were John Mahama because the “very moment [former] President Mahama began making the call, I knew he [President Akufo-Addo] was never going to do it”.
According to Chris Dugan, the President’s refusal to change the current crop of ministers in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government was informed by Nana Akufo-Addo’s lack of competent personnel to outdo the appointees.
“Where is he going to take them [the new appointees] from?” he quizzed, adding, “It was a good call that the former president made to the sitting president but we the supporters of the former president know that there is no way he would heed the call, after all, he has none”.
Furthering his argument, he claimed that the president took his appointees like “work and pay people” for which reason he could not effect the change.
Justifying the claims, Mr Gugan alluded to President Akufo-Addo’s comments regarding the calls and said “even Dr Amoako Baah and well-meaning party members have said it and are tired but the President cannot change his mediocre appointees. That is his [President Akufo-Addo’s] best. He said ‘my appointees are doing well’”.
The NDC member considering the position of the president believes that the government would leave the country high and dry.
“When you have a president who comes to tell us that the abysmal performance of his appointees which we all have witnessed and the president who has the power to change but says they are doing well, then we are already in an abyss,” he told Kwamina Sam Biney, the host.
