Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has criticized a number of Akufo-Addo administration policy choices, pointing to the National Cathedral project, the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP), and the Power Distribution Services (PDS) agreement as reasons why the New Patriotic Party (NPP) lost the general elections in 2024.
Speaking on Deloris Frimpong Manso’s The Delay Show, Mr. Kufuor disclosed that he was not consulted prior to the implementation of these initiatives and claimed he never understood the reasoning behind them.
The former president claims that the accomplishments of his administration, which served as the cornerstone of the party’s campaign at the time, were a major factor in the NPP’s 2016 election victory.
The campaign was based on my accomplishments prior to Akufo-Addo’s election in 2016, he claimed.”Those accomplishments were crucial to his triumph. The government got off to a good start, but after he took office, things changed.
He mentioned the National Cathedral project, the PDS controversy, and the difficulties with the bond market as examples of policies that he found hard to understand.Mr. Kufuor bemoaned the destruction of important national assets, such as judges’ and other officials’ residential apartments, in order to build the National Cathedral, which is still unfinished. He claimed that he only learned about the project’s advancements through observation and was not involved in any discussions about it.