Head of Joy FM's political desk Evans Mensah has described the recent changes at the presidency as a choice of politics over policy.

Chief of Staff Prosper Bani's stay at the presidency came to an abrupt end Sunday, February 16, 2015 with the official announcement of Julius Debrah as the man to take over.

Bani will bow out with his deputy, Valerie Sawyerr and in her place will be taken by Deputy Works and Housing Minister Jonny Osei Kofi.

Evans Mensah described Bani's reign as too bureaucratic with lots of the party hawks and gurus sidestepped.

He cited the public lamentation by Majority Leader Alban Bagbin about how difficult it had been to get close to the president during the tenure of Prosper Bani.

"If I can't advise you in private, I will advice you in public," Bagbin said at the time.

Relations between the party and government strained, an assertion both parties have vehemently rejected.

But Evans Mensah said with barely 22 months to go for the 2016 elections, the president has an eye on what would happen in that elections.

Bani and Sawyerr, known to be technocrats, are not the materials for a crucial make or break elections.

The president needs the army he could trust and command; the men who fully understand the political chemistry to hand the NPP another emphatic defeat.

He said with a crippling economic and energy crisis facing the government, the president needs peace to reign in the party and had to fall on a compromise pair of Debrah and Osei Kofi who are fit to build bridges between the president and some aggrieved personalities in the governing National Democratic Congress party.

But are they capable of doing what the president badly needs?

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