{"id":1131250,"date":"2022-06-22T19:19:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T19:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/22\/you-do-not-trust-akufo-addo-again-and-so-what-adom-otchere-asks-boakye-agyarko\/"},"modified":"2022-06-22T19:19:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T19:19:17","slug":"you-do-not-trust-akufo-addo-again-and-so-what-adom-otchere-asks-boakye-agyarko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/22\/you-do-not-trust-akufo-addo-again-and-so-what-adom-otchere-asks-boakye-agyarko\/","title":{"rendered":"You do not trust Akufo-Addo again, and so what? Adom-Otchere asks Boakye Agyarko."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>The anchor of Metro TV&#8217;s &#8220;Good Evening Ghana,&#8221; Paul Adom-Otchere, has questioned the motivation behind a recent statement made by Boakye Agyarko, a former minister of energy, on behalf of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/19867ad10300436f9274220cce4487e8\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Adom-Otchere, Paul He claimed that Mr. Agyarko&#8217;s statement that he hadn&#8217;t been in a relationship for a while had no bearing on his bid to represent the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2024 elections. Adom-Otchere stated in a part on his show on Tuesday, June 22, that Mr. Agyarko needs to concentrate more on the benefits he can provide for Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p>Adom-Otchere questioned, &#8220;If you say you don&#8217;t trust Akufo-Addo, is that the reason we should support you as the NPP&#8217;s presidential candidate?&#8221; &#8220;You appear on the radio and declare, &#8216;I don&#8217;t trust Akufo-Addo, so what should we do?&#8217; Then why should people choose him in the election? Because Boakye Agyarko claims to not trust Akufo-Addo, shouldn&#8217;t they vote for him? In an interview with Accra-based Asempa FM, Boakye Agyarko stated that his 47-year connection with President Akufo-Addo has ended and that they are not on speaking terms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Akufo-Addo and I are currently not friends.&#8221; &#8220;Not at all. Don&#8217;t people get divorced after being married for thirty years? &#8230; not as a result of hate. &#8221; Boakye Agyarko, a former minister of energy Never in my life will I allow someone to make me despise them. &#8220;Although I don&#8217;t dislike anyone, there comes a moment when events force you to do things your way, so you have to go on,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Boakye Agyarko was fired from his job in August 2018 as a result of the debate over the American power deal review. Agyarko stated on Accra-based Asempa FM that he hadn&#8217;t spoken to Nana Addo in person in over a year when responding to his dismissal. He claimed this &#8220;The Chief of Staff contacted me and informed me that the President had told her he would not be able to work with me once more.&#8221; &#8220;That&#8217;s OK, I responded, and I moved.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Updates.gh (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAdom-Otchere<br \/>\nAkufo-Addo<br \/>\nBoakye<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nPaul Adom-Otchere<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The anchor of Metro TV&#8217;s &#8220;Good Evening Ghana,&#8221; Paul Adom-Otchere, has questioned the motivation behind a recent statement made by Boakye Agyarko, a former minister of energy, on behalf of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Adom-Otchere, Paul He claimed that Mr. Agyarko&#8217;s statement that he hadn&#8217;t been in a relationship for a while had no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1131251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10048,18349,648,790,7541,1481],"class_list":["post-1131250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-adomotchere","tag-agyarko","tag-akufoaddo","tag-asks","tag-boakye","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131250","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=1131250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}