{"id":465051,"date":"2018-02-16T22:21:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T22:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/16\/amidu-will-resign-soon-alhaji-saani\/"},"modified":"2018-02-16T22:21:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T22:21:37","slug":"amidu-will-resign-soon-alhaji-saani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/16\/amidu-will-resign-soon-alhaji-saani\/","title":{"rendered":"Amidu will resign soon \u2013 Alhaji Saani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Friday, 16 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>thepublisheronline.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-16<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/27298531.295.jpg\" alt=\"Alhaji Saani\" title=\"Alhaji Saani\" width=\"295\" height=\"164\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Alhaji Saani, Former NDC Ashanti Regional Vice Chairman<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1518819697_95_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> A former Ashanti Regional Vice Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Alhaji Saani, has said the nominee for the position of Special Persecutor, Martin Amidu, would on his own resign from office within six months of his approval due to the nominee\u2019s temperament<\/p>\n<p>Saani expressed dissatisfaction at how Amidu responded to questions posed to him during vetting by the Appointment Committee of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Many have expressed similar sentiments over Martin Amidu\u2019s composure and demeanor during his vetting.<\/p>\n<p>Expressing his view on Accra based Okay FM yesterday, Alhaji Saani said the Special Prosecutor nominee\u2019s temperament would cause him to resign after six months in office if he is given approval.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Amidu on Tuesday, displayed a \u2018no-nonsense\u2019 stance when he was being vetted by the Appointment Committee.<\/p>\n<p>He openly displayed  signs of anger when the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu asked him if he would like to settle a matter in the \u2018Builsa way\u2019, a common joke to mean the Builsa people did not like steeling scores through dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at his posture he seems to be a dictator. He feels he knows the law better than anyone else. When the Board is set I tell you there will be controversies in this country,\u201d Saani said.<\/p>\n<p>He also expressed dissatisfaction at Martin Amidu\u2019s comment as being far better than any lawyer in Ghana, when he was asked why he thinks he is the best man for the job during the vetting.<\/p>\n<p>He believes there are competent people who also could have earned the President\u2019s call.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMartin Amidu lost several cases when he was the Attorney General so what makes him special for the job\u201d There are other good lawyers in this country who could have earned Akufo-Addo\u2019s call so he shouldn\u2019t say he is far better than any lawyer in the country,\u201d Saani stated.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/sEpSq20m-GtVgZhNx.html\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice under the previous Mills\u2019 administration, was on January 11 appointed as the Special Prosecutor by President Akufo-Addo.<\/p>\n<p>His nomination has since generated mixed reactions from both the Majority and the Minority in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/LVEAx4HV-GtVgZhNx.html\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Currently he is awaiting approval from the Appointment Committee in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 35 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Friday, 16 February 2018 Source: thepublisheronline.com 2018-02-16 Alhaji Saani, Former NDC Ashanti Regional Vice Chairman A former Ashanti Regional Vice Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Alhaji Saani, has said the nominee for the position of Special Persecutor, Martin Amidu, would on his own resign from office within six months of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":465052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}