Akufo-Addo begged Ofori-Atta not to resign-Dr. Amoako Baah.

Dr. Amoako Baah, Political Science lecturer at the University of Ghana.

Dr. Amoako Baah, a prominent member of the New Patriotic Party, has made the assertion that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo appealed to Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta to reverse his intention to resign from his position.

In a conversation with Joy FM, Dr. Amoako Baah expressed his belief that President Akufo-Addo is pressuring the finance minister to keep his post just because the minister is a member of the president's family.

“If the finance minister was not a relative of the president, he himself would have resigned. I hear he tried to resign actually: the president begged him not to. All because the president needs him.

“Whatever it is he was doing, he is the one who understood what he was doing. He was the one who made it work, and so the president needs him no matter what. This situation we are in is not like other times. This is a peculiar situation of family and friends.” he stated.

There have been demands for Mr. Ofori-Atta to be removed from his post, with some detractors noting the present economic issues that the nation is experiencing as the reason.

Several opponents of the finance minister have pointed to the decision made by the government to participate in a plan offered by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), despite the fact that the administration had previously taken a stance against the IMF.

During the course of the conversation, Dr. Amoako Baah referred to Mr. Ofori-Atta leading Ghana's IMF talks as "counterfeit reasoning."

"How is it possible that the very person that is trumpeting the idea that we are not going to the IMF, we have the means to make it work, we don't need to go to the IMF. we are a proud nation and all of that. Then we end up at the IMF and suddenly this same person is the one who has become the champion of dealing with the IMF. How is that possible?" he questioned.

Dr Amoako Baah, who is a senior political science lecturer, called the minister's integrity into question, saying, 'This is what is called counterfeit logic; it has no integrity nor whatsoever."

A copy of the audio below:

"I hear the Finance Minister tried to resign but the President [@NAkufoAddo] begged him not to because the President needs him"

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Source: ghananews.hrforum.uk