The Effia Member of Parliament, Isaac Boamah-Nyarko, has shared that former Mi ister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta was not the preferred choice of many within the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government for the second term of the former Akufo-Addo administration.

Speaking candidly on JoyPrime on Wednesday, December 10, 2025, Boamah-Nyarko said that while Ofori-Atta played a crucial role in the early years of the government, by the time the 2020 Election were over, internal confidence in his leadership at the finance ministry had waned significantly.

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Boamah Nyarko noted that Ofori-Atta brought energy and momentum during the NPP’s first term, driving several key reforms and contributing to the administration’s early successes.

“From the beginning of government in 2017, when we came to power, everybody could see the energy, the strength, the transformation that his first two, three years commanded,” he stated.

However, he explained that by the end of the first term, persistent public concerns and internal dissatisfaction over his management style suggested that a change would have been more appropriate heading into the second term.

“I believe that the second half of the year, a lot of the challenges that were coming up, where people's complaints centered around the way and manner he was running the ministry, that was where we needed a change,” he shared.

Boamah-Nyarko acknowledged Ofori-Atta’s competence but stressed that staying on as finance minister in former President Akufo-Addo’s second term was not the expectation or desire of many within the government.

“He can be, and is, a fine finance minister, but he got a lot of other things wrong… He [Ofori-Atta] wasn't the one we wanted,” he stated.

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He described it as a normal part of governance for leaders to lose momentum over time, saying that after years of intense pressure, it was natural for the minister to be allowed to step aside.

“As a government, you can't be best all the time… after a while, you’d have gotten exhausted with ideas and you move on to another challenge,” he noted.

Ken Ofori-Atta did well in his first tenure, but in the second tenure, he wasn’t the one we wanted — Isaac Boamah-Nyarko, MP, Effia Constituency#PrimeMorning pic.twitter.com/czkyh2QZcy

— Joy Prime (@JoyPrimeTV) December 10, 2025