Former President, John Agyekum Kufuor, has listed some of the unpopular decisions he believes cost the New Patriotic Party (NPP) the 2024 elections.
In a rare public critique of the administration under Akufo-Addo’s leadership, Kufuor says the NPP won the 2016 elections by a “landslide”, campaigning on Kufuor’s record from 2001 to January 2009, but when they [NPP under Akufo-Addo] got power, they handled it differently, starting well but ended up with questionable decisions.
In a TV interview with Deloris Frimpong Manso on her Delay Show aired on TV3 on Saturday, December 6, 2025, he specifically cited how, from his perspective, 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
He lamented that amid the state bungalows that were pulled down for the project, with state funds pumped into it, the best the state was given was a hole, without anything meaningful to show for.
“Look at the things the NPP used to campaign to come to power in 2017. During the campaign in 2016, they were saying ‘Kufuor has done this, Kufuor has done that’. From the beginning, it was going well. Then the Covid came and I’ll say Akufo-Addo managed it well. But after that, some of the things, if I tell you I understood them, I’ll be a liar,” he told Delay.
When asked by the host, his thoughts at the time he heard of the decision to put up the cathedral, President Kufuor said “I was not even consulted.”
Kufuor 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 party.
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