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The Editor of the Alhajj newspaper
Alhaji Iddrissu Bature has expressed disappointment with the New
Democratic Congress’s (NDC) position that the Information Minister
Mahama Ayariga did not consult party bigwigs before publicly stating
that the name of seat of government had been changed.
“I want to
disagree with that position; no Information Minister will go out of his
way to make major pronouncements about government without permission
from authorities.”
This follows reports that the Information
Minister Mahama Ayariga on an Accra based radio station indicated that
the seat of government had been changed from Flagstaff house to Jubilee
Flagstaff house.
Speaking on Citi Fm’s Eye Witness news program
Alhaji Iddrissu Bature indicated that the change of name to Jubilee
Flagstaff house does not make sense at all and he believes that some
deliberations were made before the information was passed on to the
Information Minister Mahama Ayariga.
According to him, the
release that was issued by the secretary to the President Dr Raymond
Atuguba two days ago had on it Jubilee Flagstaff house.
“When the
President appointed certain people to fill vacancies at the
constitutional review commission, in the letter head from the office, we
noticed that there has been a change of name from the seat of
government from the Flagstaff house to the Jubilee Flagstaff house” he
said.
He explained that some investigations revealed that majority of the proprietors of the NDC were not excited about the change.
According
to him, the General Secretary of the party Johnson Asiedu Nketsia and
Former Presidential staffer Mr Stan Dogbe came out to kick against the
idea stating that there was no consultation or discussion.
“Thankfully
today a member of the communication team, Former Presidential staffer
Mr Stan Dogbe has come out to apologize for the mishap and deny any
intention of any change of name by the seat of government” he added.
He further stated that it does not make sense at all since both presidents come from the same party.
The
controversy over name change started when the Kuour government after
the completion of the presidential palace decided to name it the Jubilee
House as it had been built in year marking Ghana’s fiftieth
Independence anniversary.
The name was then changed by the
government of late President Atta Mills in 2008 who refused to move into
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