Former Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko says he currently has no relationship with President Akufo-Addo.<\/p>\n
Mr. Agyarko was sacked by the President in 2018 over a power purchase agreement between the government of Ghana and the Africa Middle East Resources Investment (AMERI).<\/p>\n
The first Energy Minister under the Akufo-Addo administration said on Asempa FM, monitored by NSEMGH, on Monday that his decision not to be on talking terms with the President is not based on hatred but rather he has learned to move on with his life.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do not have a relationship with him [President Akufo-Addo] now. No, I don\u2019t. People get married for thirty years and they get divorced, don\u2019t they? \u2026Not because of hatred.<\/p>\n
\u201cMe, I will never let anybody bring me so low as to hate him. I don\u2019t hate anybody, but there comes a time when circumstances make it that you go your way, you have to move on,\u201d he said on\u00a0Ekosii Sen,monitored by NSEMGH,<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>on Monday, June 20.<\/p>\n When asked if President Akufo-Addo did not trust him, he said \u201che has to answer that, I trusted him.\u201d<\/p>\n According to him, the last time he spoke to President Akufo-Addo face-to-face was over a year ago.<\/p>\n Speaking on how he was relieved of his post, Boakye Agyarko said \u201cI was called by the Chief of Staff and she said that the President said he cannot work with me again. I said that is fine and I moved.\u201d<\/p>\n Asked if he will accept an appointment to serve in President Akufo-Addo\u2019s government, Mr Agyarko said he is currently focused on his presidential ambition.<\/p>\n In August 2018, Mr. Agyarko was dismissed by President Akufo-Addo following revelations that the renegotiated AMERI deal was fraught with corruption.<\/p>\n \u201cPresident Akufo-Addo has asked Mr Boakye Agyarko to hand over his office to the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Mr John Peter Amewu, who will act temporarily as Minister of\u00a0Energy,\u00a0until a substantive appointment is made.<\/p>\n \u201cThe President wishes Mr Boakye Agyarko well in his future endeavours,\u201d this was contained in the letter issued to sack Boakye Agyarko.<\/p>\n story by adomfm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko says he currently has no relationship with President Akufo-Addo. Mr. Agyarko was sacked by the President in 2018 over a power purchase agreement between the government of Ghana and the Africa Middle East Resources Investment (AMERI). The first Energy Minister under the Akufo-Addo administration said on Asempa FM, monitored by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":23638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[1648,13052,11746,2622,887,1384,13055,5494,122,2621,3577,192,2264,4634,9343,9349,8719,67,3250,3805,7669,11377,8522,7217,3954,10415,594],"class_list":["post-23637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-africa","tag-akufo","tag-appointment","tag-boakye-agyarko","tag-chief-of-staff","tag-corruption","tag-divorced","tag-energy","tag-energy-minister","tag-former-energy-minister","tag-future","tag-ghana","tag-government","tag-government-of-ghana","tag-investment","tag-married","tag-middle-east","tag-nsemgh","tag-peter-amewu","tag-president","tag-president-nana-addo-dankwa-akufo-addo","tag-presidential","tag-sack","tag-sacked","tag-will","tag-work","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50719,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23637\/revisions\/50719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}