Ministers Panic Over Vals Day Reshuffle

Several Ministers and deputy Ministers were said to have been summoned individually  to the Four Floor of the Jubilee House, yesterday Tuesday February 13 and told to prepare their handing over notes ahead of a major ministerial reshuffle expected to be announced today, Wednesday February 14, which is Valentine’s Day, The New Publisher has gathered.

The reports say, the persons to nominated by the President, as replacements for the said Ministers and deputies were equally invited to the Seat of Government and informed officially ahead of the public announcement.

Anxiety was reported  to have set in for almost all appointed ministers and deputies because none was sure the list from which the names were being called to appear at the Four Floor of the Jubilee House.

Over the last months,  there have been a sustained speculation of a supposed upcoming reshuffle which never came.

The speculated list kept coming up but with changes to which minister is leaving  government and which minister is being asked to move to another Ministry.

This particular speculated reshuffle expected to be announced today has gained credibility because of the high caliber of the persons who have joined the speculation although under conditions of anonymity.

As at last night, it was speculated that some 7 deputy Ministers and 12 Ministers, 10 of which are  of cabinet ranking were on the reshuffle list.

The eleventh-hour mini reshuffle was expected to be announced by the Presidency on Tuesday February 13 but someway somehow the Old Boy was said to have deferred it to today, February 14.

The New Publisher gathered from Jubilee inside sources that the affected appointees include those who contested in the just-ended parliamentary primaries of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) but lost in their respective bids.

Some of them performed miserably at the primaries and it has been interpreted as a vote of no confidence in them by their very constituents and persons closes to the at the grassroots base of the party.

Just as there was a directive from the Party that District, Municipal and Metropolitan Chief Executives who intended to contest in the said primaries to step aside ahead of the polls, same yard stick has been extended though belatedly to Chief Executives of government institutions who partook in the elections.

Our inside sources indicate that the reshuffle is aimed at strengthening the base of the Party ahead of the 2024 polls as the affected persons are said to be unpopular among the party’s grassroots and could sabotage its electoral gains.

Though details of when exactly President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will announce the changes remain unknown, it is expected that it will be done today.

Speculations of a major ministerial reshuffle has been bundled around for the last two years but nothing major in that regard has happened and no clear explanation has been given.

President Akufo-Addo had once explained that so far as an appointee of his was performing well in office, he does not see the need for the person to be replaced and true to his words; the President seems to have an allergy for ministerial reshuffles. Unlike past Presidents, He seldom sacks his men.

The President suggested further that in many instances the persons calling for the reshuffle may have their own personal interests which may not be in tandem with the larger interest of the party and government.

He was of the view such calls should be subjected to a meticulous analysis of the merits or otherwise before they are taken into consideration.