A leading Member of the governing New Patriotic Party, Nii Ayikoi Otoo has said President Nana Akufo Addo should pay attention to issues of interest raised about his foreign travels if he wants to hand over power to the next NPP Presidential candidate at the end of the 2024 elections.
The former Attorney General thinks President Nana Akufo Addo will not do anything that will endanger the chances of the NPP in the next elections.
Speaking in an interview on TV3 with Dzifa Bampoh, Nii Ayikoi Otoo said, "Presidential travels are top secret matters and therefore, they do not think it should be handled by the public or what people are calling transparency, the president’s security is very important.
“It is because of the security aspects that is why the presidential jet is ran and handled by the Military. It is a policy matter, it is a security matter.”
He further stated that "He is listening and he keeps saying he would love to hand over power to an NPP government. I don’t think that he will wish to do things that will rather jeopardize that opportunity, so he should be listening. I am sure within the shortest possible time we should find a solution to this problem that has to be tackled.
“If you endanger your future government, because he is doing his second term which means constitutionally, he can’t run anymore, and you want to hand over they will say because of these things that the President did we will not give you the opportunity, then your wish to hand over to an NPP government will fizzle out.”
It will be recalled that recently, the Minister of National Security, Hon Albert Kan-Dapaah was advised by the Member of Parliament for Abetifi Constituency Hon Bryan Acheampong to not put out information on the president's foreign travels.
During the debate on the budget on Tuesday, 23 November the lawmaker said the information about the president's foreign travels has to be kept secret for National Security Reasons.
He said “anytime our president travels he returns with goodies. He visited Germany and he came home with vaccines. Anytime he travels, he comes with goodies.”
Mr Acheampong added “I advised the Minister of National Security to keep the information on presidential travels secret.
“It is not every information that can be divulged to the public. Hitherto, it was information that can be shared but it is no longer information that can be played in the Political arena,” he said.”
This followed questions by the Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Hon Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa about the costs of the president's travels to France , Belgium and South Africa.
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