Isaac Adongo, the Chairman of the Finance Committee, has said that if the Minister of Finance, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, stays on his current path, he does not see the next president going beyond him.
According to Isaac Adongo, Ato Forson will win the next election for the NDC if he keeps focus as he had started.
Speaking on GHOne on Isaac Adongo explained, “Privately, I told him (Ato Forson). I said if you continue on the path that you are continuing, I don’t see the next president beyond you. I told him personally because to has done the things that he has done in this short period, and don’t forget that he has the full backing of His Excellency [Mahama].
“If you have a finance minister who doesn’t have the backing of the president, he will be a failure because there are certain difficult decisions that you take that even your colleagues are not comfortable with, but that is what is required to swallow the bitter pill and heal”.
He continued, “I’m not by this saying that Ato Forson wants to contest for president, but it is just to let him understand how I situate the work that he has done. He’s a young man; I don’t think he may even be having that contemplation.
But just to let him understand that we are sitting back, we are impressed with the work that he’s done and that he should keep the focus. And if he keeps the focus, he will win the next election for the NDC. There’s no two ways about that. And I do believe that his biggest strength was placing Ghana first,” he explained.
Isaac Adongo further revealed, “Yesterday, we looked at a couple of agreements that were signed before he came. Agreements that required parliamentary approval under Article 181 (5) were not brought; required approval under the public financial management at Section 33, they were not brought; tax exemptions that were over-bloated, but he was able, with his team, to renegotiate and give Ghanaians $9 million of benefits, lower than what he came to inherit.
“But also said, ‘Look, this thing requires the approval of the people of Ghana. So, I’m going back to Parliament. I want to be transparent. I want the people of Ghana to give me the mandate to implement the agreement that I have renegotiated. ’ That financial governance mentality will go down as one of his best.”
Meanwhile, Paul Adom-Otchere, a Ghanaian broadcaster and the host of Good Evening Ghana, has said Finance Minister Dr Cassiel Ato Forson is President John Mahama’s anointed choice to succeed him.
He claimed President John Mahama has identified Ato Forson and John Jinapor as his preferred NDC candidates for the 2028 elections.
According to Adom-Otchere, John Mahama is backing Ato Forson following his performance in handling the Ghanaian economy as Finance Minister.
Adom-Otchere described the ticket of Dr Cassiel Ato Forson and John Abdulai Jinapor as the president’s ticket.
Speaking on his Good Evening Ghana show on October 31, 2025, Adom-Otchere alleged, “This is President Mahama’s ticket, from what we are hearing, Cassiel Forson, the finance minister… He’s been told that if he continues doing what he’s doing until the end of next year, he will be the anointed choice of John Mahama as the next flagbearer of the NDC”
Who is going to be his running mate, our good friend John Jinapor, member of parliament and minister for Energy. The two ways the NDC want to say they are doing well in government are one of them, energy, and the other is finance”.
He added, “Ato Forson will tell you that the cedi was 17, it is now 10, it’s a feather in his cap. He will tell you gold reserves have improved and petroleum prices have been stabilised”.
He further alleged that Cassiel Ato Forson has his eyes set on becoming the leader of the NDC.
“Cassiel Ato Forson is firmly focused on becoming the leader of the NDC, the presidential candidate of the NDC, going forward to the 2028 election, and his running mate is John Jinapor.
“John Jinapor, they call him ‘JJ’ in Parliament, and he’s the deal. The two of them, Ato Forson and Jinapor, are the president’s ticket. Forget about everything else,” Adom-Otchere asserted.
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I told Finance Minister, Dr. Ato Forson that if he stays on his current path, I don’t see the next President beyond him… – Isaac Adongo (Chairman, Finance Committee)#GHOneNews #EIBNetwork #GHOneTV #NewsAlert #StateOfAffairs pic.twitter.com/u3ddkRDRKu
— GHOne TV (@ghonetv) November 18, 2025