Boakye Agyarko, a former minister of energy, has declared that he will turn down any offer from President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to succeed Ken Ofori-Atta in the position of finance minister.
Boakye Agyarko indicated that he would decline the offer in an interview with Peace FM that GhanaWeb was listening to since the president had previously said that Akufo-Addo and he couldn’t work together.
He also hinted that he saw no reason to return to a failing government.
“The president told me before he sacked me that he could not collaborate with me once more.
He informed me of this by sending the Chief of Staff.
“He (the President) said he cannot work with me and I accepted it. Now, I’m sitting in my own corner thinking about myself.
“I was in a frying pan but I did not fall into the fire because of God’s protection. I didn’t fall into the fire; I fell on the side of the fire. What reasons can you give to convince me to go back into the frying pan?” he said in Twi.
The President in a statement issued in August 2018 suggested that Boakye Agyarko had misled him into giving the green light to the AMERI deal. But Agyarko stood his ground that there was nothing wrong with the deal.
For that action, President Akufo-Addo, on August 6, 2018, relieved Boakye Agyarko of his position after an ultimatum for him to resign expired.