General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has revealed reasons why the Minority Caucus on the Appointments Committee approved Finance Minister-designate Ken Ofori-Atta.
And it is shocking to the core as it is vain.
According to him, there was a consensus at the NDC's hierarchy that the Minority Caucus approves Ken Ofori-Atta as Finance Minister, because in their estimation, he has performed abysmally and keeping him at the helm of affairs at the sensitive position will inure to the benefit of the opposition party in the 2024 General elections.
He was speaking in an interview with Kwame Nkrumah Tikesie on Okay FM’s Ade Akye Abia Morning Show.
The NDC Chief Scribe held that the Finance Minister is a lame-duck one, and Ghanaians will come to know of his lousy record and the bad deals he supervised as the Finance Minister.
“We have strategies as a political party and some of the NDC leaders sat down and considered the approval of the nominee as to whether passing or failing him, which one will be in the interest of the party. So, we all decided that if we allow him to be the finance minister, it will be in the interest of the NDC....
“We realised during the vetting of the finance minister, he was exposed in all his wrong deeds...The banks he collapsed, PDS deal and bad financial decisions he superintended over; we needed him to be there to remind Ghanaians what he has wrought on this country”, he added.
He reiterated that the approval of Ken Ofori-Atta is meant to “tell Nana Akufo-Addo that if it is this lame-back finance minister he wants to still be in control of the country’s finances, so be it, and that is why we told our people to approve him”.
Mr Asiedu Nketia however explained that the NDC issued a pre-emptive statement to calm its members over the approval of the Finance Minister to avoid a misunderstanding and also to signal that the party is aware of the approval of the Finance Minister, regardless of his flaws in the first term in office as the Finance Minister.
“Due to the misunderstanding and hullabaloo that erupted in the party in the wake of the approval of the first batch of ministerial nominess, we decided to issue the statement to calm our support base and to further assure them that the hierarchy was in the know of the finance minister's approval”, he maintained.
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And we entrust Ghana in the hands of these people. smh
No wonder the supreme court used you as excuse to dismiss our petition. What type of philosophy is this?
What a ***barred word*** opposition general secretary we have as Ghanaians. NDC MP’s approved the finance minister because they knew he will under perform? Is this party too a party? Tweaaaaa
Stop deceiving yourself. Lier.
Asiedu Nketia will keep NDC in opposition forever if they do not change him
I am deeply distraught at such callous decision by the minority. Is this how you claim you are contributing to nation development? You support the approval of one who expect to drive Ghana into the gutters. Asiedu Nketiah is a pathological liar. I believe he did that with the minority Caucus in order to get the appointment to the parliamentary service board from the Speaker. Greedy, selfish politician like him. Now the supporters of the party should wise up. It is no longer Ghana or party first rather it is their dirty pocket first. Disgraceful politicians. In 2024 my vote will not come to you and your selfish party.
Such a low life reasoning and comments afterwards.
Ghana is doomed with such elements as political heads oooo...How can you approve someone you know will perform abysmally all because you want to come to power. So clearly you do not want the nation to develop..This is such low thinking people. Well, but more, I feel these MPs are playing a game, Ex gratia is on its way so scratch my back I scratch your back kind of arrangements going on there. The Finance ministry has to approve monies for them and they want that to happen smoothly so they will not have to press for it for the public to know about for obvious reasons