Kpebu clashes with Andy Appiah-Kubi over Akufo-Addo’s title

Private legal practitioner Martin Kpebu flared up when Member of Parliament (MP) for Asante Akim North Constituency Andy Appiah-Kubi asked him to refer to the President of Ghana as “President Akufo-Addo” and not merely as “Akufo-Addo” in his submission on TV 3’s  The Keypoints programme on Saturday, February 17, 2024.

Mr Kpebu who had used the President and Akufo-Addo interchangeably insisted that he would refer to the President as Akufo-Addo without President given that the President was not born with the title; that it is common practice to refer to Presidents by only their surnames and that the record of the President does not merit that he be called President.

“He is Akufo-Addo; I am not adding anything. That’s how we do it. Was he born with the title? We say Obama all the time; Abraham Lincoln all the time; Bill Clinton all the time. Is Akufo-Addo so special? Especially for a man who has lost everything? A man who has pushed press freedom backwards? A man who has declined our economy? … We are in a decline and you say I should add President? What the hell!” He reposted.

Mr Kpebu also criticized President Akufo-Addo for refusing to sack then Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta when his own Members of Parliament (MPs) called on him to do so.

He noted that even though he had refused, the fact that his MPs boldly demanded Ken Ofori-Atta’s sacking was a fatal blow to his Presidency.