President Akufo-Addo’s performance during his meeting with the press on Tuesday was uninspiring as the president displayed a lack of grasp of the most important yet fundamental issues, former Deputy Information Minister Felix Kwakye Ofosu has said.
“Honestly, before God, the event was unimpressive to me, particularly the president’s responses to questions. Nobody compelled the president to meet the press, so if he met the press and the government had christened the meeting ‘Six Months of Results’ which he wanted to share with the media, one would have expected that the responses would be deep and convincing. But that wasn’t the case,” Mr Ofosu said of the encounter.
He said the president’s decision to “back-pass” some questions from journalists to Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and some appointees made it clear that there was “some inadequacy in the president’s understanding and knowledge of issues about his work”.
According to him, that move was wrong given the meeting was a “presidential encounter” – which enjoins the president to personally answer every question – and not a Cabinet ‘Meet The Press’ event where he could call on any of his ministers to respond to queries.
“So, I was expecting that as his predecessors had done, the president would be the one to give responses to all the questions,” Mr Ofosu added, saying it betrayed an obvious gap in knowledge.
He said such inadequacy was particularly exposed by a question posed to the president regarding how much the country owed. In Mr Ofosu’s view, a country’s total debt was so fundamental the president did not have to fall on his Vice President, the Head of the Economic Management Team, to answer.
“If you are a president, you must have a basic appreciation of the issues about governance of the country. The country’s finances are the most important issue; in fact during the NPP’s campaign they said it was the most important issue. So, it was the president’s responsibility to, at least, have had some knowledge of the financial situation the country finds itself. So if you are asked a question about the country’s finances, you do not call someone. You should be able to answer…because debt profile is basic information every president must have,” he explained.
The former Minister urged the president to prepare adequately next time for the media encounter including pre-empting questions and giving appropriate responses.
Source: AccraFM.com
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SUCH ***barred word*** GUYS SHOULD JUST BE PUT BEFORE THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR FOR THEM TO WASTE ALL THE STOLLEN MONIES FROM THE STATE ON LAWYERS,SO THAT NEXT TIME WHEN THEY OPEN THEIR MOUTH,THEY WILL KNOW ITS NOT ANYONE THAT THEY CAN INSULT.
Mahama lost the 2016 elections due to the conduct of persons like Kwakye Ofosu.
A president does not need to be 'deep-minded'. He just needs to be an 'honest' and 'trustworthy' 'leader'. Check the meaning of those three words in a dictionary. It is ok for a leader to work with people may be deeper and more knowledgeable than him; so long as he has 'commonsense' and 'integrity'
In your opinion, he was shallow but I trust him and believe he was honest about the state of affairs. He did not try to impress anybody by telling half-truths and plain lies; which JDM happens to be an expert in.
***barred word*** SOUL.
This UNKUFF BOLA MOUTH BOY. IF YOU KNOW YOU ARE THE KIND THAT MAKES US THE MIDDLE CLASS THAT DR. BOTWE TALKED ABOUT IN THE NDC REPORT THAT OVERWHEMINGLY VOTED AGAINST THE NDC, YOU WOULD HAVE KEPT YOUR FOUL MOUTH SHUT FOREVER. A BUS TAD LIKE YOU WHO IS NOT EVEN FIT TO BE EMPLOYED TO CARRY THE SHOES OF THE ELDERLY IN THE COUNTRY WHOSE STRUGGLE AND TOIL HAS MADE THIS COUNTRY WHAT IT IS TODAY FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND YOUR MASTER TO MILK THE COUNTRY DRY AND PUTING HEAVY BURDEN ON THE NEW ADMINISTRATION.....FIRE BURN YOUR FOUL SALIVA MOUTH FOREVER.....GBEHA, ***barred word***.
when will this m0r0n f00.lish boy ever shut his smelling mouth?
This ***barred word*** with sharp teeth and acid mouth is some of the reasons why the NDC went into opposition. How dare you describe the president as shallow minded? Continue toeing this line and you will remain in opposition for a long time. Anyway you might spend most of your opposition years in Nsawam prison.