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Former president John Agyekum Kufuor has reiterated his proposal for a governance system for Ghana where the office of Vice President will be scrapped. According to the former president, he would rather have an office of a Prime Minister who will lead a team of Ministers to execute government�s agenda. Mr. Kufuor was speaking on Metro TV�s Good Evening Ghana program on Tuesday September 13 where he said the current office of Vice President is irrelevant because the vice is only made to act in the absence of the President making him somewhat redundant. He said �if I have my way, I would repose the executive authority in the President and then allow him or mandate him to appoint his team of ministers led by a prime minister. "The Prime Minister and ministers would be the team the executive would send to parliament or the legislature to seek the authority of the legislature making the laws. "Then the Prime Minister and his team would take the laws so-made, back to their ministries to implement them. �The Vice President in a way is more or less like a shadow of the president and that should the president collapse, the Vice President would step instantly into the shoes of the President. I believe it�s tempting nature too much. �You bring an angel to be a vice President and very likely the angel would begin to pray for the day when his boss the president would collapse so he can step into his shoes, that one to me is not common sense. �I would rather have a Prime Minister who would not have automatic succession but who would be leading a team of ministers in helping govern the nation. "When there is a vacancy in the presidency, there can be a constitutional arrangement, temporarily till such time the national gets a new president�.