The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, is expected to announce his most radical ministerial reshuffle since he took office on 7 January 2017.
The announcement of the changes to the line-up of ministers, our Jubilee House sources say, is scheduled for Wednesday (14 February, Valentine’s Day).
This Tuesday afternoon witnessed several movements to the fourth floor of Jubilee House by ministers expected to be affected and other MPs expected to benefit from the ministerial changes.
The president, as required by the 1992 constitution, will submit the list of ministerial appointments to the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin, and the appointments will be announced on the floor of Parliament.
President Akufo-Addo will be travelling out of the country to Europe tomorrow, Valentine’s Day, on an official engagement in the Federal Republic of Germany. The list should be delivered to the Speaker tomorrow.
Asaase News sources close to the Presidency say that up to 12 current, substantive ministers of state may be affected, including ten cabinet ministers and two regional ministers.
Asaase News sources on the third and fourth floors of Jubilee House confirm that some very big names will be among those dropped from their positions as ministers of state. While some may be dropped completely, others are expected to be reshuffled.
It is also anticipated that about seven deputy ministers will lose out. The biggest beneficiaries are expected to be backbenchers from the Majority side of the House, several of whom will fill the vacant slots.
According to other sources at Jubilee House, President Akufo-Addo has been using the whole of the time available to him today to meet with all the ministers and deputy ministers who may be shifting places, leaving, or joining his government in the upcoming reshuffle.
Asaase News sources on the fourth floor of Jubilee House also say there is talk of a possible reshuffle of the leaders of the Majority in Parliament. This change, one source says, will follow a planned meeting between the leadership of the ruling New Patriotic Party and the presidency, to take place soon.
Source: Asaaseradio
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Akuffo Addo stubborn proud. Why now? We are extremely disappointed in you wai. You had the most goodwill any President in the 4th republic ever had. but you wasted it. $12m on Agyapa deal gone down the drain. You deserve seriois flogging for that paa.
Hmmmm, a ministerial reshuffle less than 10 months to the end of your tenure? What positive impact can these ministers make at this point in time? I doubt whether Ghanaians will be enthused . People were expecting a reshuffle immediately the president won the 2020 elections having seen the performance of his ministers in his first term. Nobody was asking the president to sack any appointee, just change their positions, this one too " wahala". For more than 7 years running, we have same ministers for roads and highways, transport, finance, defence, interior, foreign affairs, health, national security, bet me , if Allan Kyeremantin and Owusu Afriyie Akoto had not resigned from the trade and agriculture ministries respectively, they would still have been in charge of these ministries today. Ghanaians are disappointed to the extent that nobody cares about any action of the president now. He is reported to have said that those asking for a reshuffle are NPP supporters who also want to be ministers. Question then is; is he now yielding to their demands? Even Messi and Ronaldo, the 2 most skillful and popular footballers in the world today are sometimes substituted in matches they play. Appointing new ministers or reshuffling the existing ones is a needless exercise now. How many months are they going to study their new ministries, visit institutions under their ministries and now settle down to work less than 10 months into a major election? Any leader who thinks his views and opinion are superior to any other views and opinions will end up listening to nobody but himself. This is what is currently happening. The shine of having to reshuffle ministers has long been taken off. Better allow them to remain where they are and leave the scene with you, after all that is what you want. Don't fetch the soup too much so we can all eat the fufu till it's finished, you say no. Now the soup is finished leaving the fufu, without soup, fufu cannot be eating. This is where the NPP under Akuffo Addo finds itself.