Kwesi Botchway Jr (L) has responded to Franklin Cudjoe (R) over his attacks
Private legal practitioner and Deputy Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwesi Botchway Jr, has launched an attack on the Founding President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, describing him as a politically sponsored mouthpiece who has surrendered his independent thinking.
Botchway Jr, in a strongly worded Facebook post on November 13, 2026, accused Cudjoe of resorting to personal insults instead of engaging with the arguments he had raised about the performance of Finance Minister Dr Cassiel Ato Forson.
He also questioned Cudjoe's intellectual ability, accusing him of allowing his alleged financial relationship with the Finance Minister to influence his public commentary.
The NPP communicator's latest remarks follow an attack by Cudjoe on social media platform X after Botchway Jr described Dr Ato Forson as the "worst finance minister in the history of Ghana".
Franklin Cudjoe took issue with the description, questioning why the NPP would appoint someone he considered an inexperienced communicator to such a prominent position in the party.
He also dismissed Botchway Jr's criticism of the Finance Minister, arguing that the current government's economic performance was better than that of the previous NPP administration.
In his response, Kwesi Botchway Jr said Franklin Cudjoe was entitled to disagree with his political views but should have challenged his arguments with facts rather than resorting to insults.
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"Challenge my arguments, interrogate my facts and offer contrary evidence. But resorting to personal insults because you cannot intellectually engage the issues only exposes the emptiness of your argument," he wrote.
The NPP deputy communications director further expressed disappointment in Cudjoe, whom he claimed to have previously held in high regard.
"I genuinely had a great deal of respect for you. Unfortunately, your latest outburst has demonstrated that I may have seriously overestimated your intellectual capacity. What a cheap display of intellectual bankruptcy!" he stated.
Kwesi Botchway Jr also questioned Cudjoe's alleged financial relationship with Dr Ato Forson, suggesting that it could be affecting his ability to independently assess the government's economic performance.
"The fact that Ato Forson may be paying your medical bills does not mean he should be allowed to own your brain. You must retain some independent capacity to think for yourself," he added.
He subsequently turned Cudjoe's insults against him, arguing that his educational background did not necessarily translate into the depth of knowledge he expected from him.
"If there is anyone who has demonstrated the characteristics of an illiterate clown and all the other adjectives you have used to describe me, it is you," Botchway Jr wrote.
He continued: "Because, despite whatever education you may have acquired, you have exhibited a rather astonishing poverty of intellectual depth. You come across as nothing more than a cheap, politically sponsored mouthpiece."
The NPP communicator also addressed Cudjoe's description of him as a "little boy", saying he had no problem with the reference but challenged the IMANI Africa founder to account for his own achievements when he was around his age.
"Yes, I am a little boy. No argument there. But when you were my age, what exactly had you achieved? Which of your children and family members my age is more educated and better than me?" he questioned.
He further challenged Cudjoe to consider the personal cost of the current economic conditions, particularly the cost of medication, instead of focusing solely on government economic statistics.
"Since you are so enthusiastic about comparing economic indicators, perhaps you should also tell Ghanaians whether the cost of your medication has increased or decreased under this government. That is a far more practical question than the rehearsed political propaganda you have chosen to regurgitate," he stated.
Botchway Jr maintained his criticism of Dr Ato Forson, accusing the Finance Minister of failing to meet the government's financial obligations to various groups of workers and deliver jobs.
He questioned the Finance Minister's ability to pay teachers, public sector workers and farmers, insisting that the government's economic performance did not justify the praise he was receiving.
"How do you want me to describe a finance minister who can't pay teachers, workers, farmers, public sector workers, deliver jobs, etc? He is not only the worst, he is also incompetent," he added.
What Franklin Cudjoe said about Kwesi Botchway Jr
Franklin Cudjoe's criticism of Botchway Jr followed the latter's description of Dr Ato Forson as the worst Finance Minister Ghana had ever had.
In a post on X, the IMANI Africa founder questioned the NPP's decision to appoint Kwesi Botchway Jr as its Deputy Communications Director, describing him as an "illiterate clown" and accusing him of making claims without providing evidence.
He also challenged the NPP communicator to compare the economic conditions under the previous NPP government, led by former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, with those under the current NDC administration.
Cudjoe cited what he described as a 54 per cent interest rate, 35 per cent lending rate, exchange rate collapse, junk-rated economy and debt crisis under the previous administration.
In contrast, he pointed to what he described as a five per cent inflation rate, 14 per cent lending rate and a reduction in Ghana's debt-to-GDP ratio from 65 per cent to 45 per cent within a year under Dr Ato Forson.
He also claimed that the current government had repaid its debts earlier than projected.
Dismissing Botchway Jr's assessment of the Finance Minister, Cudjoe wrote:
"How does a party wanting to be back in power, end up with appointing iconoclast illiterate clowns such as this little boy spewing rubbish every day without a shred of evidence and make him Deputy Communications Director or communicating for the party at all?"
He ended his post with the word "Sankwas!", expressing his displeasure with the NPP communicator's assessment of the Finance Minister.
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