Roads and Highways Minister, Inusah Fuseini, has dissented with suggestions by a colleague minister that Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo breached the Constitution by presenting his version of the State of the Nation Address (SONA).

He said the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) acted within the constitution in presenting what he called the 'real state of the nation' in response to the President's State of The Nation Address presented to Parliament.

On March 2, the Deputy Finance Minister, Cassiel Ato Forson, said on Okay FM’s Morning Show that, there is no provision in the Constitution, which allows the opposition leader to deliver his State of the Nation Address after the President, was through with his.

However, Mr. Fuseini stated that the ‘real state of the nation address’ delivered by the NPP flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo, was an “exercise of his Constitutional rights.”

According to him, Akufo-Addo was expected by his party to react to the President’s State of the Nation Address and that his failure to do so could have gotten him removed by his party as Presidential Candidate.

Speaking on Joy FM's/ MultiTv news analysis program, News File, Mr. Fuseini explained that President Mahama expected some reaction from Ghanaians to his ‘evidence based’ achievements adding the NPP’s reaction was expected and proper.

He said Akufo-Addo’s speech was calculative and is a testament of Ghana’s growing democracy.

Also, Mr. Fuseini said he is interested in accountability, explaining that Akufo-Addo was held to task by the NDC.

Responding to the controversial Hohoe roads, Mr. Fuseini said the President did not say all the roads had been constructed but rather some.

The President had pronounced in the SONA that works on the Hohoe roads were on-going to give the town a new facelift.

Mr. Fuseini debunked media reports that the residents of the area took him on and that they only helped to bring the real issues to the attention of his office.

The Minister rebuked the contractor saying if he were a serious contractor he would have constructed the road within two months.

Mr. Fuseini said government officials in the region also failed to provide his office and that of the President of the true state of the roads.

He commended the residents of Hohoe for drawing the attention of the government to the true state of Hohoe roads.

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