Private Legal Practitioner, Martin Luther Kpebu, has said President Akufo-Addo has “lost legitimacy and is dead politically.“
He says his “intransigence” which led him to come out to beg Members of Parliament in public shows his dictatorial attitude in a democratic administration making him fail to sense the danger at the “whispering stage.”
He indicated on TV3’s The Key Points Saturday, October 29, 2022, that the move by the Majority MPs is a blow the President can never recover from for the rest of his life.
According to him, “Akufo-Addo will go down as the worst President in the Fourth Republic and has lost his legitimacy.”
Mr. Kpebu who had in an earlier discussion described the President as “super incompetent” said President Akufo-Addo is still carrying himself as President because he controls the public purse.
“He will never recover from this blow. He has lost legitimacy. He has already gone down as the worst in the Fourth Republic. Very intransigent,” he described.
Calls for the sacking of the Finance Minister has been on the lips of many who believe his poor administration has plundered Ghana into her current economic disaster.
But President Akufo-Addo described those making the calls earlier as hungry unemployed people who are jealous of his cousin the Finance minister.
However, in Parliament Tuesday, October 25, 2022, some 80 Majority MPs in a media briefing asked the President to sack Ken Ofori-Atta and his Deputy, Adu Boahen, to relieve Ghanaians from the economic misfortunes currently confronting the country.
According to them, “the recent happenings is not pleasing and after consulting our constituents and informing the leadership of Parliament, we want the President to set aside the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta and the deputy minister of State in charge of Finance Charles Adu Boahen for government business to continue.
“If the president refuses to heed to our call, we will not participate in any business for the government,” Andrews Appiah Kubih said on behalf of the group.
Meanwhile, the President has appealed to the MPs to allow the minister complete the IMF negotiations as well as preparation of the 2023 budget statement and economic policy.
Many experts have nonetheless held that both assignments are not individually inclined since budgets are prepared by a team just as the International Monetary Fund deals with nations rather than individuals.
The MPs have, however, bowed to the President’s plea. But the Minority in Parliament also filed a motion of censure which has been admitted by the Speaker of Parliament, and may be casting a secret ballot over his dismissal or otherwise by November 10 since processes have began, according to North Tongu lawmaker, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa.
By Felix Anim-Appau|Onuaonline.com
