The departure of cabinet members, according to Dr. Alidu Seidu, Head of the Political Science Department at the University of Ghana, will divert government work.
According to Dr. Alidu, the orphan ministries would struggle with transition procedures to find successors, as well as damage advances achieved in those ministries previous to the ministers' resignations.
So far, two ministers who want to be the New Patriotic Party's flagbearer in the 2024 general elections have resigned from the Akufo-Addo administration.
Alan Kyeremanten, Minister of Trade and Industry, resigned last week, and Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, Minister of Agriculture, did the same this week.
"The resignations are both distractions and facilitators for government business," Dr. Alidu added.
"They are diversions in the sense that there is so much attention focused on the cabinet members who are departing their roles and there is going to be a few transition issues in those particular ministries. A caretaker minister must be chosen to function until the president chooses a successor, and securing a replacement who is not a deputy minister occasionally disrupts government work."
"These folks who were working in government as ministers were also a bit distracted because their focus was divided between executing their political campaigns and also assisting the administration and the party to succeed. In such instances, it is frequently a fine line between pursuing your own campaign as a prospective flagbearer and assisting and supporting official business."
He did, however, express hope that if motivated and qualified successors are selected, the consequences of the diversions will be limited.
"When you look at what is occurring now, it will disrupt government business a little bit but at the end of the day, if new ministers are nominated to take over, and they settle in very well, then government work will take precedence".