Ofori-Atta: Kufuor Declares He Has Not Invited 98 NPP MPs Agitating For Finance Minister’s Dismissal For Talks

• Former president John Agyekum Kufuor has said he has not invited the 98 MPs calling for Ken Ofori-Atta to be sacked for talks
• He said the reports are mischievous and part of a grand agenda by unnamed persons to drag him into what he calls "petty politics"
• The office of the former president said if Kufuor feels the need to comment on any national issue he would surely speak out

The office of former president John Agyekum Kufuor has denied reports on Thursday, November 17, 2022, that he has invited the 98 NPP MPs demanding the sack of the finance minister for talks.

The report was first published by Starr News, citing confidential sources, that the former president, who is a member of the NPP Council of Elders, has moved to dissuade the NPP MPs to backdown on their demand.

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But in a quick response, the spokesperson for the former president Dr Kwabena Osei-Adubofour said the reports are mischievous.

"The former President is as concerned as, perhaps more so than, others for the wellbeing and stability of Ghana, and in his own way is doing whatever he can for the nation to get on top of the seemingly intractable difficulties currently engulfing our society, and would be the last person to play petty and uninformed politics in the circumstances," the statement clarified.

The statement stressed that if the former president sees the need to comment publicly on national issues, like he has done countless times, he would do so promptly.

"But, he would definitely not be drawn in, on other people's terms and agenda," the statement was emphatic.

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Meanwhile, YEN.com.gh has reported in a separate story that MP for Adansi Asokwa Kobina Tahir Hammond has slammed the media in Ghana for what he believes to be misreporting.

On Tuesday, November 15, 2022, the legislator, representing the Majority caucus as co-chair of a committee hearing evidence in support of grounds to impeach finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta, joked that he did not buy fuel nor own a car.

Some media houses run with his joke that he did not own a car and treated it as serious news.

The reportage earned the MP fierce criticisms on social media.

Source: YEN.com.gh