The Deputy Minority Leader in Parliament, Patricia Appiagyei, has accused President John Dramani Mahama of neglecting females in the appointment of Chief Executive Officers for the various state-owned institutions in the country.

According to the Deputy Minority Leader, who is also the Member of Parliament (MP) for Asokwa, the president has not only failed Ghanaian women in his appointments but has also failed to give adequate allocation to women from the northern part of the country, where the majority of his appointed CEOs hail from.

She added that the president’s action violates the 1992 Constitution of Ghana, which provides for regional balance in appointments to such positions, and sets a dangerous precedent.

“One of the reasons I’m sad is that majority of them (the women) who have been chosen to be chief executives are from the north. It is even more astonishing if you look at the Ashanti Region. What I think is that maybe he is not getting women from the north to appoint as he said... If this is the case, then there is a problem.

“Even the recent district assembly appointees they brought had the majority of them (the females appointees) are from the north… This is very dangerous because it was the whole of Ghana that voted, and the law of Ghana, which is the constitution, states that appointments should be done in a way that ensures balance (regional balance),” she said in the Twi dialect during an interview on Angel TV, on May 15, 2025.

The Asokwa legislator added, “If you look at the population size, they are not more than the remaining of us. In terms of population, Akans and the other tribes are more than them, so why should the appointment be lopsided in this manner?”

Watch her remarks in the video below:

"I feel sad when I look at the list of President Mahama’s appointees. Most of them are Northerners, and I believe that’s a dangerous trend."

- Deputy Minority Leader and MP for Asokwa, Hon. Patricia Appiagyei, has expressed concerns over what she describes as a disproportionate… pic.twitter.com/gVJYpzEjQo

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