{"id":1173389,"date":"2022-08-10T20:42:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T20:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/10\/ministerial-reshuffle-those-whom-the-gods-wish-to-destroy-they-first-make-mad-akufo-addo-told-politics\/"},"modified":"2022-08-10T20:42:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T20:42:12","slug":"ministerial-reshuffle-those-whom-the-gods-wish-to-destroy-they-first-make-mad-akufo-addo-told-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/10\/ministerial-reshuffle-those-whom-the-gods-wish-to-destroy-they-first-make-mad-akufo-addo-told-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministerial Reshuffle: &#8216;Those Whom The gods Wish To Destroy They First Make Mad&#8217; &#8211; Akufo-Addo Told | Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>&#8220;This is a clear indication that they don&#8217;t have the men and any further approach to reshuffle will cause his government to spiral down further. Ghanaians should rather brace for the worst.&#8221;<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>That is the assessment of the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, on the Akufo-Addo led administration.<\/p>\n<p>To him, the only hope for disillusioned Ghanaians is for them to take advantage of the 2024 polls and vote the incompetent NPP out of power.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on <strong>Okay FM&#8217;s<\/strong> &#8216;Ade Akye Abia&#8217; programme, he explained that President Akufo-Addo&#8217;s posture clearly shows that he has lost it and has nothing left in him again to take the country out of the dungeons of a failed economy and provide a permanent solution to the hardships Ghanaians suffer daily.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;You claim to have the men yet these men have proven to be as incompetent as your government. Ghanaians are clamouring for a reshuffle which they believe can inject some fire into the system to turn the economy around but you are saying otherwise.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This clearly shows that the Nana Addo government does not have the men as they claim because he (Akufo-Addo) fears if he changes the already underperforming team, the next appointees will even make matters worse. And like the adage &#8216;Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad&#8217;,&#8221;<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p>The NDC scribe however could not fathom why the President would also want to blame the NDC for his inability to reshuffle his non performing Ministers. <\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;What about your own party members and Ghanaians who are appealing to you for a change which they believe can some how turn things around?&#8221;<\/em> he rhetorically asked.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch video below<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"HuIm3k8XZXU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;He Who The gods Wants To Destroy or Kill, They First Strike Mad&quot; - Asiedu Nketia To Nana Addo\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HuIm3k8XZXU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen title=\"\"He Who The gods Wants To Destroy or Kill, They First Strike Mad\" - Asiedu Nketia To Nana Addo\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Akufo-Addo: I\u2019ll not heed to reshuffle calls to destabilise my government<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has reacted to a public call for him to reshuffle his appointees, especially ministers of state and says, he has no immediate plans of heeding to those calls.<\/p>\n<p>To him, the output of the Ministers were consistent with the expectations and therefore there is no need to reshuffle them.<\/p>\n<p>For all you know, it is people who want to destabilise my government or people who are looking for jobs, who are behind those calls, he said.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo made the reaction in a radio interview with the Tamale based\u00a0Radio\u00a0North Star\u00a0on Monday [August 8, 2022], as part of his tour of the Northern Region this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The issue of reshuffling or performance of my ministers is a daily pre-occupation,\u00a0I&#8217;m\u00a0required on a daily basis to ask myself whether a particular minister is up to the mark.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am the final authority and if they are not up to the mark, I&#8217;m required to act. So if they are up to expectations then I don&#8217;t have any reason to heed to the calls for reshuffling,&#8221; President Akufo-Addo said.<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: Isaac Kwame Owusu\/Peacefmonline\/<span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"214852404042615144404244474c4e4f4d484f440f424e4c\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\">Disclaimer<\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of Peacefmonline.com. Peacefmonline.com accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of . 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Ghanaians should rather brace for the worst.&#8221; That is the assessment of the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, on the Akufo-Addo led administration. 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