The Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt, has expressed concern over growing partisanship against the constitutionally mandated equity required of presidents to administer to all citizens.
According to him, the trend of people urging leaders to abandon the notion of being a ‘father for all’ contravenes the presidential oath.
“There is an issue coming up that I am very worried about. You hear people angry on the basis that President Mills, in his tenure, was described as a father for all and that such traits should be discarded. How do we discard that? You can read the presidential oath. Everyone who becomes president of Ghana swears to be a father for all.
“That is what it means, that you would not discriminate against anybody and so on. It’s in the presidential oath. So that is a constitutional injunction which can’t be discarded. If you are NPP and you become president, are you president only for NPP? If you are president only for NPP, then you are a worthless president who ought to be dumped. If you are CPP and you claim to be president for CPP alone, then excuse me to say you are very worthless. As president, you are for everyone; not just NPP or NDC,” he stated during a panel discussion on Peace FM’s Kokrokoo morning show.
He emphasized that it is necessary for presidents to be non-discriminatory in the discharge of their duties, including fighting against corruption.
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