Malik Basintale, the National Democratic Congress’s (NDC) deputy communications officer, claimed that Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, their running mate, had done a better job as education minister than Matthew Opoku Prempeh of the New Patriotic Party had.
His remarks follow reports that have been making the rounds on news portals that Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the flagbearer of the NPP, has proposed Energy Minister Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh to President Akufo-Addo as his running mate for the 2024 election.
In an interview with Accra-based Citi TV, Deputy Communications Officer of the NDC, Malik Basintale pointed out some achievements of their running mate.
“NAPO should point to one senior high school he has put up in this country and then let’s see how he was able to manage the expansion of second-cycle education in this country. It was under Professor Nana Jane’s regime that tertiary, training colleges and polytechnics, after being expanded, the quota system was cancelled.
“We allowed free flow into these training colleges and these nursing training colleges. It was under Professor Nana Jane’s regime. Only for NAPO to reintroduce an acute quota system again. Bagabaga Training College, for example, under Professor Nana Jane, used to recruit over 1,000 students a year.
“Under NAPO as Education Minister, under his regime till date, Bagabaga Training College has been recruiting less than 300 students a year. That was a high quota system that was introduced into this quota system”, he alleged.
