Minister for Government Communications, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, has refuted claims by Damongo MP Samuel Abu Jinapor that President John Dramani Mahama has appointed 100 presidential staffers.

Speaking at a press conference on Friday, March 7, 2025, Kwakye Ofosu clarified that the actual number of presidential staffers appointed is 30, not 100 as alleged.

“Everybody who has been appointed as a presidential staffer has been named in a statement signed by me. So, currently, there are 27 presidential staffers. All of them were publicly announced, unlike in the past when we only learned of them when the president submitted a list of presidential staff to Parliament. This time, we went ahead to inform the people of Ghana and left nobody in doubt about the numbers.

“In addition to these 27, three people have been appointed to assist with specific interventions that the president wants to undertake. They are referred to as directors. They do not hold the rank of presidential staffers, so they are described as presidential aides,” he noted.

He continued, "If you add them to the list of staffers, there are just 30 people. Beyond that, no other staffers or presidential aides have been appointed."

On Wednesday, March 6, 2025, Samuel Abu Jinapor accused President John Dramani Mahama of breaking his pledge to maintain a lean government.

He claimed that, despite promising to appoint only 60 ministers, the president had not only exceeded this number but had also appointed over 100 staffers at the Presidency.