NAPO can't be running mate in NPP - Frances Essiam

The immediate past Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Cylinder Manufacturing Company Limited (GCMCL), Madam Frances Ewurabena Essiam, has said that the Minister for Energy, Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh (NAPO), is not fit to partner with the Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia as a running mate on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in a bid for the presidential mandate in the upcoming 2024 elections.
The embattled CEO on Friday, February 24, 2023, noted that Dr Prempeh is unfit to be a running mate, especially on the ticket of the NPP.
“The Energy Minister cannot be a running mate, these are all the issues that will be coming up during my press conference, so let’s hold on for now,” she said. 
Ms Frances Essiam further revealed that she resigned from her post because of the actions of the Minister for Energy. 
Ms Essiam and Dr Prempeh are allegedly at loggerheads over an agreement between the GCMCL and the Ghana Gas Company for the construction of a new gas processing plant. 
It is alleged that Dr Prempeh wants Genser Energy to establish a new gas processing plant instead of the state-owned Ghana National Gas Processing Company. 
Madam Essiam, talking about the issue said she worked hard to put the GCMCL on a growth trajectory and now Dr Prempeh and his team want to take over the company from her.
She explained that the unwarranted interference from the Energy Minister is what led her to resign from the company before President Akufo-Addo appointed Madam Genevieve Sackey as the new Chief Executive Officer.
“We decided to expand the company and because we do not have the means for the expansion, another state-owned company agreed to help us with it.
"The company was going to take over the acquisition so that our workforce will be saved and we have already acquired the land for the expansion," she said. 
She added that the minister does not want the state agency to acquire the company.
"And I also don’t agree so I have to resign so NAPO will take the company,” she stated angrily in an interview on Accra-based UTV.