Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has said Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s administration started well from 2017, but described the latter part of his administration as fraught with some decisions that were not understandable from his [Kufuor] perspective.
In a television interview with Deloris Frimpong Manso on her Delay Show aired on TV3 and published on YouTube on Saturday [Dec 6, 2025], Mr Kufuor specifically cited how, from his perspective, Nana Akufo-Addo managed the COVID-19 pandemic issues very well but ended up not handling the “bond market” issues very well.
He also cited the National Cathedral project as one example, which started as a project made to believe it was going to run as a privately funded project, but ended up as a state-funded project.
He said he initially thought the Cathedral was “a private enterprise,” even though government land had been allocated for the project, but it ended up as an uncompleted project.
Asked whether he was consulted on some of those decisions, Mr Kufuor said he was not consulted.
In a rare public critique of the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) administration under Nana Akufo-Addo’s leadership, Mr Kufuor said the NPP won the 2016 elections by a “landslide”, campaigning on Kufuor’s record from 2001 to January 2009, but when they [NPP] got power, they handled it differently, starting well but ended up with questionable decisions.
He also cited the Power Distribution Services (PDS) deal with the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) as one of the government decisions under President Akufo-Addo’s tenure, which was not understandable to him.
The former president revealed he was kept in the dark on several key government initiatives, despite his status within the NPP.
He also cited the Power Distribution Services (PDS) deal with the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) as one of the government decisions under President Akufo-Addo’s tenure, which was not understandable to him.
The former president revealed he was kept in the dark on several key government initiatives, despite his status within the NPP.
