Opoku Prempeh doesn’t appeal to anybody who is desirable for good governance – Kwakye Ofosu

A Former Deputy Minister of Information Felix Kwakye Ofosu has said that the running mate to the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh (Napo) does not appeal to persons outside of the NPP.

He says Napo comes across as arrogant and disrespectful to the people of Ghana in his comments on the power outages.

“Napo does not appeal to anybody who is desirable for good governance … in the economic difficulties we have you do not need a vice president who does not appeal to people outside of the NPP,” Kwakye Ofosu said.

“He is not being any net value to the ticket,” he stressed.

Meanwhile, Executive Director of Global InfoAnalytics Mussa Dankwa has said that the selection of Manhyia South lawmaker as the running mate to Dr Mahamudu Bawumia may be a result of the party’s realisation that they are losing ground in the stronghold, the Ashanti Region, therefore, they needed a person of Opoku Prempeh caliber.

He said the campaign activities of the leader of the Movement for Change Alan Kyermaten and independent presidential aspirant Kwame Bediako contributed to the fear of the NPP losing grip in the region.

“They have seen that they are not as young as they used to be in Ahanti region with Alan there and also Kwame Bediako so they needed someone like Napo,” he said on TV3 while discussing the selection of Energy Minister as Dr Bawumia’s running mate on Thursday July 4.

Running mates are usually selected to attract floating votes but the selection of Opoku Premeh is not that way.

This is the first time a running mate has been selected who is not attracting floating voters, he added.

General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Justin Kodua Frimpong has said that it is worthy to note that throughout his 4-year tenure of Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh as Minister for Education, there was significant industrial harmony and stability in the education front.

Dr Opoku Prempeh ensured that the concerns of teachers and other players in the education sector were adequately attended to.

“This therefore confirms that Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh has an incredible interpersonal
and negotiation skills. He is arguably the only Minister of Education in this Fourth Republic to have achieved this feat. Having delivered at the Ministry for Education, the President appointed him during his second term to head the Ministry of Energy, where he again, demonstrated his stellar leadership qualities.

“He worked very hard to KEEP THE LIGHTS ON, even during the times of unprecedented global economic crisis when every sector of the economy was virtually in “darkness”, gasping for breath,” Kodua Frimpong said while announcing the former Minister of Education and currently Energy Minister as the running mate to Dr Bawumia.

Regarding the power challenges, he said “We however concede that in the last couple of weeks and months, some parts of the country did face some power challenges.

“But, the good news is that, unlike in the past particularly under H.E John Dramani Mahama, where we slept in darkness for over four(4) years, Dr. Prempeh ensured that the recent power challenges we experienced did not last beyond three (3) months. He is indeed results-oriented, and there is absolutely no debate about that.”

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