President Nana Akufo-Addo has come under fire from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for his assertion that he denied the Ekumfi constituency its share of the national cake since the voters there supported the New Patriotic Party’s parliamentary candidate.

The NDC stated that the president’s remark is ‘vindictive’ and unworthy of a president.

Speaking to some traditional chiefs from Ekumfi who were paying him a courtesy call at the Jubilee House, President Akufo-Addo disclosed the information.

The President claimed that when Francis Ato Cudjoe, a Deputy Minister he had nominated, was ousted by voters in the 2020 elections, he was disappointed and refused to give Ekumfi the necessary advancement.

Subsequently, he committed to focus on the constituency.

The NDC’s deputy secretary, Mustapha Gbande, responded to these remarks by emphasising in a Wednesday interview with Eyewitness News that President Akufo-Addo had no business speaking to the late president’s family in this way.

“It seems that if the president was speaking to somebody like me, it would have been acceptable, but the president being the president of the Republic of Ghana was speaking to the family, direct family members of a late former president [John Evans Atta Mills]. So, to have made such comments, for us, is unpresidential.”

“It just reflects the nature of the president we have, who is so vindictive and believes that he prioritizes politics over development. That is why his government is failing,” Mr. Gbande stated.