Next president must focus on government of national unity – Jantuah

The next president of Ghana should be interested in a government that will ensure national unity, a leading member of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) Kwame Jantuah has said.

Mr Jantuah said this after accusing President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of his inability to unite the country.

“I feel that the next president, the first mindset should be how do we have a government of national unity. There are brains who are sitting on the fence who can come and help,” he said on the New Day show on TV3 on Friday, July 19.

Regarding governance, he further observed that there are defects in the governance style that must be addressed through constitutional amendments.

For instance, he said too much power has been given to the president in the 1992 Constitution.

This, he said, must change.

“The winner takes all concept, is it helping? Local government, is it not centralized at the upper echelons, local government is not working now. if it was a working station in the district we would have been able to handle it.

“The constitution, this constitution has ruled for over 30 years, there are certain parts of it hurting us today, one of it is executive power, are we ready to look at the executive power?

Economic hardships: Ask for forgiveness from Ghanaians – Jantuah tells Akufo-Addo

In the area of economic hardships, Mr Jantuah told President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to apologise to the people of Ghana for the economic hardships that the people are saddled with.

He recounted the economic hardships that led to pensioners picketing over their inclusion in the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP) have collapsed several businesses, thereby further exacerbating the difficulties.

Mr Jantuah noted that Ghanaians are forgiving therefore if Mr Akufo-Addo renders a sincere apology they are likely to accept it.

“Is this not the first time pensioners have picked? Ask for forgiveness from Ghanaians because Ghanaians are very forgiving, if you accept you that have done something wrong they will forgive you, apologize to them that you haven’t managed the economy well,” he said.