President-elect John Dramani Mahama has been warned by Oliver Barker-Vormawor, the country convener, to refrain from selecting regional ministers for his upcoming cabinet. Oliver Barker-Vormawor highlighted in a recent Facebook post that John Mahama had initially pledged to name just 60 ministers in the event that he were elected president of Ghana. After doing the math, Barker-Vormawor clarified that Mahama would need to pick 19 cabinet members and their deputies, for a total of 38 ministers. Only six positions will be available for additional cabinet appointments if Mahama also names 16 regional ministers. He asserts that the nation can still run efficiently without regional ministers.
"The incoming president has pledged to name 60 ministries. He will have appointed 38 cabinet ministers and their deputies if he names 19 of them. He would have 54 ministers if he appointed 16 regional ministers. Six more to go. My audacious suggestion is that regional ministers must be fired by the president-elect! We don't need them. That's the only way his lean government notion will succeed," he wrote.


This follows John Dramani Mahama's reaffirmation of his pledge to name just 60 ministers in the event that he wins the 2024 elections. He claims that no more than 60 ministers will be appointed if he is elected president in 2024. According to Mahama, this strategy will save government expenditure, boost agency productivity, and get rid of jobs that aren't needed in order to avoid waste. He clarified that his objective is to improve Ghana's faltering economy, which is beset by high unemployment, escalating costs, and a growing wealth disparity. John Mahama is the president-elect at the moment. In 2024, he emerged victorious. Will he fulfill his vow to choose only 60 ministers?