‘Lies and propaganda’ – Shamima Muslim clashes with Ernest Adade over appointment revocations

The two, during a panel discussion on the Good Morning Ghana programme on Friday, March 7, 2025, could not agree on the use of the words “annul” and “reverse” to describe the revocation.

Shamima Muslim, in her initial comments on the matter, said that the government only reversed appointments made after December 7, 2024.

But Ernest Adade, after reading the revocation notice by the Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah, interpreted the presidential staffer’s comment to mean the appointments had been cancelled.

“All heads of government institutions are hereby requested to take the necessary steps to annul,” he read the notice, adding, “I don’t know what we all understand by annul.”

He continued reading the document, “Annul any such appointments or recruitments and submit a comprehensive report on the action taken to this office by 17th February 2025.”

He asserted that the words of the letter can only mean that the government was either “cancelling” or “annulling” the appointments.

But Shamima Muslim insisted that the directive meant that the appointments and recruitment processes had been reversed and not cancelled.

She said that the “operational meaning” of the word “null” is “to reverse.”

“The lies and the propaganda. Even right here, Ernest cannot concede anything, anything at all. These are the reasons why they are sitting where they are sitting now.

“I’m here to speak to Ghanaians, the people who have given us this mandate. I’m not here to really explain something to Ernest, who insists that they will not understand.”

Watch a video of the clash below: