Naana Opoku-Agyemang as Mahama’s running mate is a threat to Ghana’s development – NPP

The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has downplayed the credibility of Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang as a powerful running mate for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama.

Addressing the media on Monday, July 6, 2020, Communications Director of the NPP, Yaw Buaben Asamoa questioned the commitment of Prof. Opoku-Agyemang when she served as the Education Minister under the Mahama-led administration.

Yaw Buaben Asamoa called her out for creating a hostile system for teacher trainees by canceling their allowances among other things.

“Teachers were the highest hit when Naana Opoku-Agyemang was Education Minister. These inhumane treatments meted out to Ghanaian teachers at the time was the brainchild of Naana Opoku-Agyemang the-then Minister of Education. We need not remember anybody that the cold-hearted manner by which teachers were treated cannot be forgotten easily by the teachers themselves or the nation. The worst thing associated with her name is the Montie 3 saga. When the trio threatened death on some Supreme Court Justices, she was one of the people who joined the campaign and appended her signature to have the trio who had been incarcerated at the Nsawam Prison released against sound advice by well-meaning Ghanaians. How can such a woman be given such a responsibility now to take care of everybody in the country?”

He further stated that Mahama’s running mate is a threat to the country’s development because she has nothing relevant to offer Ghanaians.

“We wonder what message candidate Mahama is sending to Ghanaians by picking Opoku-Agyemnag as Vice Presidential candidate when her stewardship in the past brought hardship to teachers and trauma to her colleague women. While we wish the NDC well in this regard, we also wish to tell the NDC that we are ready to tell Ghanaians about the dangers she poses to our growth and development as a country”, he said.

Meanwhile, the presidential candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama has described Madam Opoku-Agyemang as “God-fearing, a distinguished scholar, a conscientious public servant, and a role model.”

“The National Executive Committee of our great party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) this afternoon, unanimously, endorsed my nomination of Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang as my Running Mate for the December 2020 election. Naana Jane is God-fearing, a distinguished scholar, a conscientious public servant, and a role model,” he wrote on Facebook.

The John Mahama and Prof. Naana Opoku-Agyemang are seeking to recapture power from President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia in the December polls.