Apart from Mr. Bani, also packing out of the Flagstaff House and out of government are Executive Secretary to the President, Raymond Atuguba and Ben Dotse Malor who occupied the curiously created position of Senior Communications Consultant to the President.
Deputy Chief of Staff, Valerie Sawyerr replaces Prosper Bani in that position.
It was predicted that Mr. Malor, a former BBC journalist would not succeed at the Presidency.
He was thought to be too polished and too refined for Ghana’s tempestuous politics.
It will therefore not surprise many that his one-year service at the Flagstaff House which has been criticized variously was not renewed.
It is unclear what the fate of Dr. Raymond Atuguba is.
The celebrated young academic left the serene precincts of academia and took a leap of faith by accepting the politically tainted position of Executive Secretary to the President in 2013.
Before then, he had served as the Executive Secretary of the Constitution Review Commission, a group of eminent lawyers put together by then President John Atta Mills to review Ghana's 1992 Constitution in fulfilment of an elections campaign promise he made in the 2008 election.
After the CRC's work was done, Dr. Atuguba returned to the law faculty of the University of Ghana where he taught.
But before long, President John Mahama won the 2012 Presidential elections on the back of a groundswell of hope and promise and appointed Dr. Atuguba as his Executive Secretary.
The appointment was hailed as a demonstration of intent by the newly elected president to select a competent team different from the one appointed by his predecessor which had been criticised as too slow and too inexperienced. In the words of Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, who contested and lost the flagbearership slot of the governing National Democratic Congress, President Mills had ignored the many experienced hands in the party and appointed "Team B ministers."
Not much was seen or heard of him in government but to be fair, Dr. Atuguba is not one to seek attention.
There were, however, unceasing rumours about power struggle at the presidency. There were even many predictions that he had been wanting to leave the presidency but the president always urged him to stay.
Dr. Atuguba may be heading back to where many thought he rightfully belongs - the classroom.
SOURCE: joy news
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