Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the Member of Parliament for North Tongu, has revealed plans to retire soon from parliament.
According to Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, North Tongu is producing engineers, lawyers, aeronautical engineers, and future MPs who will be taking over from him.
Speaking during the presentation of money to fifty students at Juapong in the North Tongu constituency under his scholarship scheme, the Foreign Affairs Minister stated, “We are producing engineers, lawyers, aeronautical engineers, future MPs who will be taking over from me because I will be retiring soon.
“Also, future presidents and future teachers who will come and help us to maintain the high standards we are laying over here.”
“Keep making me proud. I am always excited to hand out these scholarships,” he added.
Ablakwa has been a member of Parliament for North Tongu since 2013.
Meanwhile, in related news, Paul Adom-Otchere, the host of Good Evening Ghana and former Board Chairman of the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL), has alleged that Haruna Iddrisu and Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa are fighting over the NDC 2028 running mate slot.
According to Paul Adom-Otchere, both Haruna Iddrisu and Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa want to be the running mate of the current vice president, Prof Opoku-Agyemang.
Speaking on his Good Evening Ghana programme on December 3, 2025, Paul Adom-Otchere alleged, “Haruna Iddrisu, the Minister for Education, and Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, are fighting ‘gidigidi’.
Haruna Iddrisu speaking at Mawuli Secondary School, for their 75th anniversary, and he said that you cannot keep your hair and come to school, you remember that sparked the debate surrounding to keep the hair or not to keep the hair”.
He added, “The foreign minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, goes to his former school, hasn’t been invited as the guest speaker; he is part of the government, so he did not have to contradict the Education Minister. It was wrong for him to if I am Chief of Staff, he is the one I will punish. One minister spoke about it, even if it is not a government position, another minister should not go public against it.
Weeks down the line, Ablakwa comes to say the opposite, and in doing so, talks down to people whose hair is important. So, the Minister for Foreign Affairs is telling the Education Minister that his ridiculous analysis of short hair and having correlation to discipline, he does not understand it”.
Adom Octhere added, “Haruna Iddrisu is fighting with Ablakwa, and Ablakwa is also fighting with him as a political news reporter. I know why they are fighting. It’s for a very big prize, and they will not be fighting if the prize is not big. The tussle for VEEP in the NDC is what they are fighting about; both of them want to be the next Vice President if the NDC were to win in 2028, and they both want to be Vice President for the same Presidential candidate.
Prof Jane Naana has long had an excellent relationship with Ablakwa in Mahama’s first term. When she became Minister of Education, Ablakwa was her deputy, so during the first Mahama term, they forged such a tight alliance as deputy and boss.
Then, Haruna Iddrisu was working in the Trade. This vice president is close to Ablakwa and has come into the saddle. They won the election, and he is the vice president. Ofosu Ampofo hears that Johnson Asiedu Nketia, his nemesis in the NDC, is running for president, and he does not want that to happen, saying Madam is more competent than the party chairman.
Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo and Alex Segbefia are pushing Prof Jane Naana and Ablakwa’s work to gather the Volta Region for the vice president”, he added.