Former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Professor Emmanuel Martey thinks that critics of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo are “unwise” people.

“All those who are making those unwise statements that Akufo-Addo has failed…I hear some of them; they have been there [for] eight years and they have not been able to do anything and they are querying those who just came,” the vociferous clergy man said in an interview with some journalists in Koforidua on Monday.

Parliament has rejected the passage of the Constitutional Amendment Bill 2016, which was seeking to change the date for holding Ghana’s election from December 7, to the first Monday of November in election years.

According to Citi News’ Duke Opoku Mensah, “the Bill could not garner the 184 votes needed” for its passage.

Eligible voters must be Ghanaian citizens who are at least 18 years old, although those declared insane are disenfranchised.

In a reply to a Facebook post on the subject, Mr Malor suggested the Akufo-Addo government should bring officials of the past government who embezzled state monies while in office to book.

Ablekuma North Constituency New Patriotic Party (NPP) Chairman George Nkrumah has expressed worry over factions within the party in the constituency.

These factions, according to him, started during the constituency and parliamentary primaries held before the 2016 general election.

Honourable members, Article 291 clause 3 requires that Parliament needs at least the votes of two-third of all members of Parliament to approve the Bill at the second reading stage and that two-thirds is 184, because the two thirds of 275 is 183.333.

Therefore the constitution amendment Bill 2016 is rejected at the second reading.” AG was in Parliament to push for the Bill’s passage Before voting today [Thursday], the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong, made an attempt to canvass support for the passage of the Bill.