Elephant size gov’t: Ignore the number, focus on results – Otchere-Darko

Private legal practitioner and a leading member of the governing New Patriotic Party, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko has jumped to the defence of the President’s decision to take on over hundred ministers.

According to him, the President needed such huge numbers in order to accomplish the needed results that Ghanaians wanted to see in the country.

Mr. Otchere-Darko’s comment comes on the back of President Akufo-Addo’s decision to have one hundred and twenty-four (124) Ministers undertaking specific duties.

Speaking on Thursday’s edition of Good Evening Ghana, Mr. Otchere-Darko argued that the President did not appoint all these people with a deliberate intention of giving them jobs but rather have all these ministers playing various developmental roles in the country.

He noted “If the  over 120 ministers translate into making sure development can go closer into all those regions then why the need to argue about the numbers? As a people we should be more concerned about results instead of numbers.”

“For every personnel of his creation, we should know that it is part of his bigger vision. October 2020, take your pen and begin to mark him. Try to assess if the numbers that you talk about now, has not brought positive results,” he added.

He further made reference to the fact that Ghanaians should rather look at the bigger picture and buy into the vision of the President by understanding him rather than criticizing him for the large number of ministers he has chosen to work with.

“I believe in the Akufo-Addo project and if you have time to listen to the man, his ideologies, commitment and the passion that runs through his veins, It will inform you to trust every decision he makes,” he reiterated.

Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko said it is only fair for Ghanaians to judge the president in 2020 when his vision has been implemented across the country and has improved the living condition of all Ghanaians.