Nana Obiri Boahen, a former deputy general secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has pleaded with the administration to take former president John Agyekum Kufuor’s calls for a reshuffle seriously.
Obiri Boahen says that due to Kufuor’s prominence within the New Patriotic Party, the government need to accept his counsel and not disregard it (NPP).
The former deputy general secretary stated that Kufuor’s experience as a two-term president cannot be taken for granted in an interview with Okay FM that GhanaWeb was listening to.
“If President Kufuor, who was an MP in 1969 and has been president for two terms, is advising you on something, who am I or who are you to say you will not listen to him? Why must you be dragging his man in the mud?
“Why are you not listening to him and thinking about what he said, but you brush it off, saying you will not listen to him?
“If Kufuor makes a statement, it is like Otumfuo Osei Tutu or Yaa Naa or any of the powerful chiefs in the country speaking to his subjects; who are you to say you will not listen,” he said in Twi.
A president should have the confidence to remove his appointees from their positions if it becomes out that they are no longer carrying out their responsibilities, according to former president John Agyekum Kufuor.
The senior statesman asserts that it is the president’s duty to see that when his appointments are no longer effective, he makes the painful choice to replace them.
When the former president hosted the Institute of Economic Affairs at his Peduase residence, renowned journalist Kwaku Sakyi Addo asked him a question. In his response, John Agyekum Kufuor gave a classic illustration of one of the significant personnel changes he made while in office.
