Deputy General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Obiri Boahen is urging the Akufo-Addo government to remain focused on the good work it is doing regarding the various intervention programmes.
According to him, the Akufo-Addo led government should not be distracted by whoever becomes the next flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC); thus, whether NDC chooses former President Mahama, Sylvester Mensah, Spio-Garbrah, Professor Joshua Alabi or Alban Bagbin as its flagbearer, it will not affect Akufo-Addo’s government.
Speaking on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' Morning Show, Nana Obiri Boahen said President Akufo-Addo as a leader is doing very well for the New Patriotic Party, though his administration is fallible so far as it is a human institution.
“We should not be distracted because the NPP with Nana Addo as the leader is doing very well in government. There may be one or two shortcomings here and there but as human institution as it is, the President can be misled,” he averred.
President Akufo-Addo, according to speculations, was 'misled' into granting executive approval for the AMERI deal to be laid in Parliament before the House went on recess.
Under the new proposal, the Greece-based Mytilineos International Trading Company was to assume management responsibility for the AMERI emergency power-generation arrangement negotiated by the past NDC government, in effect extending the original outsourcing agreement by ten more years.
But on his return to Accra from the 53rd session of the ECOWAS Heads of State meeting in Togo, Akufo-Addo quickly requested and received a further briefing on the new deal.
At the briefing, it emerged that the agreement to which he had given executive approval to on July 31 lacked the requisite input from the Attorney General and the Ministry of Finance.
But Nana Obiri Boahen in a sharp response to the AMERI issue has reiterated that the Akufo-Addo government has been brilliant in policy implementations as a lot of them have been announced and implemented regardless of those policies which have been called off.
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