{"id":1233994,"date":"2022-10-25T13:43:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T13:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/25\/80-of-npp-mps-support-call-to-sack-ofori-atta-appiah-kubi\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T13:43:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T13:43:30","slug":"80-of-npp-mps-support-call-to-sack-ofori-atta-appiah-kubi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/25\/80-of-npp-mps-support-call-to-sack-ofori-atta-appiah-kubi\/","title":{"rendered":"80% of NPP MPs support call to sack Ofori-Atta &#8211; Appiah-Kubi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"416\"  alt=\"\" title=\"President_Nana_Addo_Dankwa_Akufo-Addo_and_Ken_Ofori-Atta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/President_Nana_Addo_Dankwa_Akufo-Addo_and_Ken_Ofori-Atta-696x416.jpg\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"416\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/President_Nana_Addo_Dankwa_Akufo-Addo_and_Ken_Ofori-Atta-696x416.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"President_Nana_Addo_Dankwa_Akufo-Addo_and_Ken_Ofori-Atta\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><b>About 80 per cent of New Patriotic\u00a0Party (NPP) Members of Parliament support the call to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to remove his Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta and the Minister of State at the Finance Ministry Charles Adu Boahe, the NPP Lawmaker for Asante Akyem North Andy Appiah-Kubi has said.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>He made this know in an interview with TV3\u2019s Paa Kwesi Asare on Tuesday after addressing a press conference in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a betrayal,\u201d he said, adding that \u201d 80 per cent of the NPP MPs support this call.<\/p>\n<p>During that press conference, he said said \u201cWe are unhappy with the developments in the country, we consulted our constituents who also expressed same sentiments.<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1584858313258565633\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" 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Laud Nartey|3news.com|Ghana<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 80 per cent of New Patriotic\u00a0Party (NPP) Members of Parliament support the call to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to remove his Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta and the Minister of State at the Finance Ministry Charles Adu Boahe, the NPP Lawmaker for Asante Akyem North Andy Appiah-Kubi has said. 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