The Minister of Education, Haruna Iddrisu, has clarified his remarks on Vice President Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang and her potential to assume the presidency.
Speaking at the Ghana Teacher Prize event at the University of Health and Allied Sciences on Sunday, October 5, 2025, he stated,” …There are many of you who sought to give it your own interpretation. Professor Jane, I’m reminding them that my mother taught me that sometimes silence is golden, because silence cannot be interpreted. But this one, I wanted an interpretation, because a Vice President, irrevocably, is a presumption that she can assume the high office of President”.
His comments followed an expression of goodwill for Vice President Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, praying that she may one day become Ghana’s first female president.
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During a visit by the Professor Opoku-Agyemang to the Ministry of Education on September 24, 2025,
Welcoming her, he said, “It’s my pride and honour and grace to want to welcome you back to the Ministry of Education, this time in an elevated capacity as the first female Vice President of our Republic.”
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The minister further wished her long life and good health, adding, “It is my prayer that God will give you long life and good health, so that probably you will be elevated to become the first female president. God bless you.”
Professor Opoku-Agyemang previously served as Minister of Education and was appointed Vice President following the 2024 general election, making history as Ghana’s first woman to occupy the office.
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