{"id":1150897,"date":"2022-07-16T21:52:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T21:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/16\/akufo-addo-will-reshuffle-his-ministers-if-need-be\/"},"modified":"2022-07-16T21:52:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T21:52:09","slug":"akufo-addo-will-reshuffle-his-ministers-if-need-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/16\/akufo-addo-will-reshuffle-his-ministers-if-need-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Akufo-Addo will reshuffle his ministers if need be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\">New Patriotic Party (NPP) stalwart, Gabby Otchere-Darko says political watchers should be measured with calls for a ministerial reshuffle.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Gabby Otchere-Darko says President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is not \u201cquick to reshuffle\u201d his ministers despite intense pressure, but will do so at the right time.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn ministerial reshuffle, it\u2019s the prerogative of the president. He is one president who is not quick to reshuffle. But I believe, if, in his wisdom, he sees that there\u2019s a need to reshuffle [I\u2019m sure he will make the right decision],\u201d he said in a<strong> Citi News<\/strong> interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Ghanaians have been mounting pressure on the president to sack some of his ministers and re-assign others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The calls have also intensified because some ministers are preparing for other political ambitions.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But Gabby believes the President will take that decision at the appropriate time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He was speaking at the NPP\u2019s national delegates conference currently underway at the Accra Sports Stadium.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cClearly, between now and 2024, the need will arise. And some may say the need is now. But I think he [Nana Akufo-Addo is a listening president]; he will listen, he will look at what he wants to do, what he\u2019s getting from his ministers, what he\u2019s not getting from them, and make the right decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"BxGQMllfq_M\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Akufo-Addo will make the right decision soon&quot; - Gabby Otchere-Darko on reshuffling of ministers\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BxGQMllfq_M?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen title=\"\"Akufo-Addo will make the right decision soon\" - Gabby Otchere-Darko on reshuffling of ministers\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Patriotic Party (NPP) stalwart, Gabby Otchere-Darko says political watchers should be measured with calls for a ministerial reshuffle.\u00a0 Gabby Otchere-Darko says President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is not \u201cquick to reshuffle\u201d his ministers despite intense pressure, but will do so at the right time.\u00a0 \u201cOn ministerial reshuffle, it\u2019s the prerogative of the president. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1150899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[648,1477,3526],"class_list":["post-1150897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-akufoaddo","tag-ministers","tag-reshuffle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150897","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=1150897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}