{"id":190705,"date":"2025-02-06T16:48:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T14:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-parliament-approves-12-ministers-designate-minority-rejects-ablakwas-nomination\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T16:48:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T14:48:42","slug":"ghana-parliament-approves-12-ministers-designate-minority-rejects-ablakwas-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-parliament-approves-12-ministers-designate-minority-rejects-ablakwas-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Parliament Approves 12 Ministers-Designate &#8211; Minority Rejects Ablakwa&#8217;s Nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Parliament on Tuesday approved the nominations of 12 ministers-designate, including Mr Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, Minister-Designate for Health, and Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Minister-Designate for Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">However, the Minority Caucus rejected Mr Ablakwa&#8217;s nomination, citing concerns over his vetting process and responses during parliamentary hearings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Other ministers-designate and their portfolios are: Mr Issifu Seidu, Minister of State-Designate for Climate Change and Sustainability,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502060227.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament on Tuesday approved the nominations of 12 ministers-designate, including Mr Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, Minister-Designate for Health, and Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Minister-Designate for Foreign Affairs. However, the Minority Caucus rejected Mr Ablakwa&#8217;s nomination, citing concerns over his vetting process and responses during parliamentary hearings. Other ministers-designate and their portfolios are: Mr Issifu Seidu, Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":190706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[50592,258,256,8326,4508,4509,50591,12287,257,9072,2412,8440,254],"class_list":["post-190705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-ablakwas","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-approves","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-ministersdesignate","tag-minority","tag-news","tag-nomination","tag-parliament","tag-rejects","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}