{"id":1129427,"date":"2022-06-21T07:32:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T07:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/21\/boakye-agyarko-reveals-relationship-with-akufo-addo-listen\/"},"modified":"2022-06-21T07:32:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T07:32:33","slug":"boakye-agyarko-reveals-relationship-with-akufo-addo-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/21\/boakye-agyarko-reveals-relationship-with-akufo-addo-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Boakye Agyarko reveals relationship with Akufo-Addo [Listen]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"386\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/AGYARKO-1-Copy-696x386.jpg\"   alt=\"Boakye Kyeremateng Agyarko and Akufo Addo Source: Google\" title=\"Boakye Kyeremateng Agyarko and Akufo Addo Source: Google\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boakye Kyeremateng Agyarko and Akufo Addo<br \/>\nSource: Google<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>   <!--  --><\/p>\n<p>Former Energy Minister, Boakye Kyeremateng Agyarko, has revealed the relationship he has with the President, Nana Akufo-Addo after he was relieved of his position.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, though he does not begrudge the President for sacking him as minister, he has decided to move on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t talk to Akufo-Addo even though I have known him since 76. I don\u2019t have a relationship with him now. I have learnt to go on to move my separate way. I don\u2019t trust him anymore. We are not in talking terms but not in a bad way. There comes a time where circumstances make it that you go your way and that\u2019s exactly what I have done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have not spoken to him over the phone after my sacking. I only met him face to face and that was once over a year ago. At the end of the day, that is how life is,\u201d he said in an interview on Asempa FM\u2019s <strong>Ekosii Sen show <\/strong>Monday as he made deeper revelations about his dismissal.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1291016599&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Monday, August 6, 2018 relieved Mr Agyarko, of his duties.<\/p>\n<p>The August 6, 2018 statement said the president had: \u201crelieved the Minister of Energy, Mr. Boakye Agyarko, of his position, with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe latest move from Flagstaff House \u2013 i.e. the presidency \u2013 is related to a power deal over which the sacked minister is said to have misled the president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But reacting to the sack, Mr Agyarko said the President has since not spoken to him about his dismissal except for a call from the Chief of Staff for him to come to her office where the news was broken to him.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/FVtMZ-hWYAAnval-Copy.jpg\" alt=\"Former Minister for Energy, Boakye Kyeremateng Agyarko\" class=\"wp-image-2128646\"  \/><figcaption>Former Minister for Energy, Boakye Kyeremateng Agyarko<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cEven if I had done something wrong, just call and explain to me but Akufo-Addo never did after working intimately with you for 10 years. I don\u2019t begrudge the president but at the end of the day he is the executive authority and so he had the right to do what he wanted. Believing in Akufo-Addo blindfolded me before being sacked. I didn\u2019t see it coming,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<h3>Boakye Agyarko officially declares intention to lead NPP in 2024 [Audio]<\/h3>\n<h3>Akufo-Addo, Boakye Agyarko, others mourn with popular MP [Photos]<\/h3>\n<h3>Boakye Agyarko dares NDC over $170 million GPGC judgment debt [Audio]<\/h3>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"sXFDnQe-9k8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Incessant flooding affecting residents of Weija Barrier \u2013 Adom TV News (20-6-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sXFDnQe-9k8?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boakye Kyeremateng Agyarko and Akufo Addo Source: Google Former Energy Minister, Boakye Kyeremateng Agyarko, has revealed the relationship he has with the President, Nana Akufo-Addo after he was relieved of his position. According to him, though he does not begrudge the President for sacking him as minister, he has decided to move on. \u201cI don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1129429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[18349,648,7541,3584,2407,51],"class_list":["post-1129427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-agyarko","tag-akufoaddo","tag-boakye","tag-listen","tag-relationship","tag-reveals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}