A Special Aide to NPP flagbearer Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, Ellen Ama Daaku, has described Presidential Staffer Nana Yaa Jantuah as a “third-tier government official.”

Her comments come after Nana Yaa Jantuah criticised Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin for allegedly describing her as a “nobody” when she was delegated to receive a petition on the government’s behalf after the NPP’s recent demonstration.

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Speaking on GTV ON August 7, 2026, Ama Daaku defended Afenyo-Markin’s position and said the NPP’s concern was about the level of representation offered by the government to receive its petition.

“I also want to say a good morning to Madam Nana Yaa Jantuah, the third-tier government official, and ask her to stop complaining about the NPP and Honorable Afenyo-Markin addressing her for what she is.

“She's a third-tier government official, and the NPP feels it's very disrespectful on the part of the government to send a third-tier government official to come and receive the petition. It is as simple as that,” she said.

Ama Daaku said the comments were not meant as a personal attack on Nana Yaa Jantuah but were based on her position in government.

“It is not an affront to her person. It is an affront to what she represents and what she came to do. How can she come alone? Nobody said she's a nobody. In the scheme of things and in the order of governance, she's a third-tier government official,” she argued.

She explained that the NPP expected the government to send a delegation that matched the level of officials who presented the petition on behalf of the party.

“But what I heard him say was that, looking at the people the NPP brought out to come and present the petition, it was just fair that the government also, at least, brought comparable people. You just don't send a single person, a third-tier CPP turned NDC government official, to come and receive a petition,” she said.

According to her, the NPP therefore chose to hand the petition to its Deputy Youth Organiser, Sandra, who in turn presented it to Nana Yaa Jantuah, whom the party deemed unqualified to receive it.

“So the Honorable Afenyo-Markin and the team did very well by giving the petition to our Deputy Youth Organizer, Sandra. I don't see why she's bothered. It matters [who receives the petition],” she stated.

Defending the actions of her party members, Ama Daaku also cited a similar incident involving a demonstration against the Bank of Ghana during the previous government.

She claimed that organisers of that demonstration, which was the NDC, refused to hand their petition to the then Chief of Security at the Bank of Ghana because they considered him a “watchman.”

“Two years ago, if you remember, the then opposition, now government members, also had a demonstration to the Bank of Ghana, and the Chief of Security at the Bank of Ghana was asked to come and receive the petition. They refused to even give the petition to the man because they called him (sic),” she recalled.

She further claimed that Nana Yaa Jantuah had also referred to the former security chief as a “watchman” during a radio discussion.

“In fact, yesterday, Nana Yaa Jantuah sat on ASEMPA FM and called that man a watchman, but that man is a lawyer. He's a retired Army officer, and he heads the security of the Bank of Ghana. Then led by the now majority in Parliament, all the MPs, they said he was a watchman, and they would not hand their petition over to a watchman,” she added.

Ama Daaku maintained that the NPP had not described Nana Yaa Jantuah as a nobody but was only questioning the level of government representation.

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“As for us, we didn't say that. All we said is that Nana Yaa Jantuah is a third-tier government official, and the government should have done better by bringing a more comparable delegation to come and collect it,” she said.

“Why is she crying? You are a third-tier, and you should be third-tier. You cannot move from CPP as General Secretary and go and become NDC Presidential Staffer and you expect people to call you what? I heard her say she's a top government official. Madam, you are not. You are a third-tier government official,” Ellen Ama Daaku concluded.



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