If John Dramani Mahama is re-elected as president of Ghana, he has pledged to appoint only 60 ministers to lead his administration.
He claimed that the current administration has ruined the nation by employing over 86 ministers and their deputies, which is costly for the country.
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When visiting the Western Region’s Evalue-Ajomoro-Gwira Constituency, former President Mahama made the promise while discussing recent appointments made by President Nana Akufo-Addo.
His mission to gather support for leading the National Democracy Congress (NDC) in the elections of 2024 includes the visit.
The Akufo-Addo-led government recently appointed Kobina Tahir Hammond as the Minister for Trade and Industry, Bryan Acheampong as the Minister for Food and Agriculture, Stephen Asamoah Boateng as the Minister for Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Dr.Mohammed Amin Adam as the Minister of State at the Ministry of Finance, Osei Bonsu Amoah as the Minister of State at the Ministry of Local Government, Decentralization, and Rural Development, and Dr.
The 275 constituencies in the nation will hold the NDC’s primaries on Saturday, May 13, for both the flagbearer and parliamentary candidates.
“Looking at how the government has ruined the country, when NDC comes, we shall manage the country with not more than 60 ministers in order to reduce government expenditure,” Mr. Mahama said in Twi.
He continued by saying that excessive travel by government appointees would be curtailed because the government needed to be forgiving of the Ghanaian people.
Kofi Arko Nokoe, a member of parliament for the Evalue-Ajomoro-Gwira Constituency, recalled how challenging it was to unseat then-New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP Catherine Abelema Afeku, a cabinet minister at the time.
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He claimed that in order to win the seat, he had to fight for it, and that they will stop at nothing to keep it in the 2024 elections.
“This is a seat which is very difficult to win but in 2020, we wrestled it from the NPP. In 2016 after the election, the NDC power went down in the constituency. In 2018, I went to the party and told them I could wrestle it because everyone was afraid of the then NPP MP. I went round the constituency and I realized Axim was the challenge so if we are able to break that challenge, we shall win the seat,” Mr. Nokoe recounted.
