Former Minister of Lands and Natural Resources Inusah Fuseini has consoled Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga Central Isaac Adongo over his inability to catch President John Dramani Mahama’s eye for appointment.
“I sympathize with Isaac Adongo,” he said in an interview on State of Our Nation on Dreamz FM.
According to him, he was convinced Isaac Adongo’s name would feature in the list of deputy ministerial nominees released on February 5, 2025 and had even congratulated him ahead of the announcement by the Presidency.
“On Sunday last week, or Sunday this week when I was travelling down to Accra with him, I congratulated him because I felt that he was part of the deputy ministers.”
But such “disappointments”, he said, are not unexpected since the President seeks to run a lean government even in the face of the huge numbers the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has in Parliament.
“It’s not all that you want, that you are given by the almighty God,” he stated.
“All of us, many of us would have wanted, and I’ve always been joking with him, that, ‘oh, because I farm at the same place with you, I want you to go to the Ministry of Finance.
So the next time I want money to buy a combine, I’ll come and attack you to give me money to buy a combine’. And we all laughed. But it didn’t happen.”
He believes “President Mahama has great plans for everybody” and thus, urged those who have been left out to remain resolute in their commitment to the work of the party and country.
He further asked them to take solace in the story of the current Upper East Regional Minister Donatus Akamugri Atanga, who missed out several chances of landing an appointment in the past but has now been handed one of the top positions in the government.
Many supporters of the Bolgatanga Central MP have been left disappointed following the latest nominations by President John Dramani Mahama.
The MP had been highly tipped to land the substantive post of a Finance Minister.
But when that slipped away, some consoled themselves with the fact that he could still be considered for a Deputy Finance Or Trade Minister.
But President Mahama has nominated persons to fill those two posts, leaving Isaac Adongo with a slimmer chance of landing appointment in the government now.
This reality has left his supporters utterly disappointed.
