The Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has expressed disappointment in President Akufo-Addo’s choice to defer some questions asked him at his maiden encounter with the media.
Describing the President’s style as “not too inspiring” and “not too encouraging”, Mr Ablakwa said it was an indication that he was not on top of issues in the country.
President Akufo-Addo at his maiden encounter with the media on Tuesday deferred a question posed by Accra-based Citi FM’s Benard Avle about why the country has in the last 6 months borrowed almost half of its GDP despite earlier assurances that his government would use its internal resources to develop the country to Vice President Dr Bawumia.
He also delegated the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Gloria Akuffo, to answer a question from EIB Network’s Wilberforce Asare on government’s handling of remuneration of magistrates and circuit court judges as well as the ongoing impasse between the law students and the Ghana School of Law.
Speaking on Accra-based Joy FM Wednesday morning, Mr Ablakwa was of the opinion that deferring the questions to Dr Bawumia and Madam Akuffo was a sign that he (President Akufo-Addo) was not in charge of affairs.
“I am not too comfortable with the seeming departure by President Akufo-Addo in deferring questions to his vice president, his ministers because this occasion affords the people an opportunity to get to know if their president, their Commander-in-Chief is really on top of his brief, if he has a handle on the job and that every sector at least he has some understanding because he is the one we voted for. The buck stops with him,” he said.
“So when he drops the economic questions like a hot potat, when he passes the questions to with the law school and challenges at the Attorney General’s department, a department he has headed before and so you cannot say that President Akufo-Addo is not conversant with the workings of the Ministry of Justice and Attorney General’s Department. Then I will say that it is not too inspiring; it is not too encouraging. We want to see that our president is really on top of his brief,” the former Deputy Education Minister assessed.
In a quick reply, the Deputy Chief of Staff, Samuel Abdulai Jinapor said “There is absolutely nothing wrong with that and indeed it is supported by the concepts of government… Every minister speaks for the President.”
Source: Daily Graphic
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Will Ablakwa (Mr.) ***barred word*** and learn from the experienced Nana Ado's style of leadership? He was happy when Mr. Mahama scolded entrepreneurs in Ghana by calling them 'not Smart' whwn his government had woefully denied them POWER to make them 'smart'.Mr. Mahama always gave assurances that never materialized and I believe if his ministers were allowed a space to brief Ghanaians on national issues it would have been all the better instead of throwing tantrums when he lacked the facts. A leader must show confidence in his subordinates in other to get the best out of them.
Hon okudzeto ablakwa, there was nothing wrong in the president deferring some qiestions to his ministers. There were only three of this. Two to thethe vice who showed he could easily step into the shoes of the president and the other one th the attorney general. All other q0uestions were answered by him. Unlike in the ndc time when vice prrz amissah attah kept mute because then prez mahama was unsure of the response his vice might give. Surely, the npp has the men. Ndc needs to read a lot to be abreast with what is happening around the world. Okudzeto, you goofed big time.8
The centre can not hold, the man can not do the work, age is catching up with him. He is clueless and confused
NDC, why did NANA ADDO appointed the Ministers? Cheap Politics
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Why did appointed the MINISTERS? Cheap politics
look at his fat cheeks like a buffalo....... u wait and see, your days are numbered with the independent prosecutor, your sharp baby teeth will be decorpled
Rather than being clueless like Mahama was numerous times, Nana Addo has shown maturity by making the sector ministers responsible for the various industries respond
What NANA did was the correct one. As a President and have your Minister in Charge of Health. If some one ask the President HOW MANY DOCTORS and NURSES are at post say in that Ministry. What is WRONG if the owner of the Ministry is around and the President tell him to Answer it. Hear, if the Minister could not answer then, it is a case. Because he should KNOW those statistics. The President want to see or know that the Ministry is doing well. PERIOD. As Mahama was answering ALL QUESTIONS put at him brought his downfall. But Nana will let all his MINISTERS work and know what he or she is doing at their respective places.
NANA ADDO CAN NOT USE MAHAMA STYLE, DON'T FORGET WE VOTED YOU OUT BECAUSE WE DIDN'T LIKE YOUR STYLE. NANA HAS HIS OWN STYLE, HE WILL NOT TRY IMPRESSING LIKE MAHAMA WAS DOING WITH THE DOMSU WILL BE OVER THIS AND THAT TIME