The Member of Parliament (MP) for Ada and Deputy Majority Whip, Comfort Doyoe Cudjoe, has clarified why she did not take up a ministerial position from President John Dramani Mahama's administration, stressing that her preference has always been to serve in parliamentary leadership rather than the executive arm of government.

Speaking in an interview on Citi FM on Tuesday, September 9, 2025, she explained that her choice was deliberate and it was based on her understanding of power dynamics and influence within the governance structure.

"When people start crying, why didn't they make you a minister? I laugh because they don't understand the two.

"When you are a leader in the House, all the MP-ministers, when they enter the chamber, are under you," citinewsroom.com quoted her to have said during the interview.

Cudjoe highlighted that her front-bench position as Deputy Majority Whip grants her significant authority and oversight over ministers who appear before Parliament.

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"I don't know why they say I should leave the front bench and go and be a minister and come and sit behind a leader in the chamber. Let me be in the front," she added.

"All the ministers that come to the chamber, if I turn to them and say I need this, I get it done."

The Ada MP revealed that she had previously served as a minister but declined offers to return to the executive because she felt more impactful in her current role.

"I have been a minister before. Unless he [President Mahama] says with your specialities, I have seen you can do this for me, but not to just ask me, do you want it? I will say no," she stated

She added, "I was asked several times, but I said no. I told my party. I told my leadership. When we won power, all of them said they wanted to be ministers. I told them I want to be a leader."

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