POLITICS

Executive Secretary of Care Ghana, David Kumi has disclosed that the policies of the African Union are highly against reforms being instituted by the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC). According to him, per the African Union’s policies, no country is expected to make major reforms to their electoral processes a year prior to elections. He made this disclosure in an ...

The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has directed its constituency executives to suspend members who have been involved in cursing party executives over th upcoming parliamentary primaries. It comes after viral videos of some party members agitating and visiting rivers to invoke curses on executives of the party for disqualifying their preferred candidates. Addressing a press conference in Accra Monday, ...

Some delegates of the governing New Patriotic Party, (NPP) in Nsuta Kwamang Beposo constituency of the Ashanti region have rejected bribe amounting to one thousand Ghana Cedis (GHc. 1,000.00), a mobile phone and GTP cloth. The items were allegedly given to delegates by Adelaide Yaa Ntim, one of the parliamentary aspirants seeking to unseat the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) ...

Political Scientist Dr. Amoako Baah has described the disqualification of some contenders in the upcoming parliamentary primaries of the NPP as inappropriate and undemocratic. Also, he said, the idea of party executives deciding a candidate after a flawed primaries is problematic. There is raging anger among some branch executives and supporters of NPP after the National Executive Committee (NEC) of ...

The National Identification Authority (NIA) has postponed its mass distribution of Ghana Cards across the 16 regions of the country. The NIA last week announced that it will from Monday, June 8, 2020, distribute over three million printed Ghana cards to applicants across the 16 regions of the country. According to the NIA, the cards are being made available in ...

Gallant soldiers cadres of NDC. The Electoral Commission of Ghana should not allowed itself to be manipulated, controlled, and then execute a careful grand design to hoodwinked the entire Ghanaians with the intended new voter registration. We believe Ghanaians must be listened to including the major opposition party, the NDC. as well as Civil Society Organizations. The PRO for Gallant ...

The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has said Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia can never become the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). According to the NDC scribe, the only way the current Vice President can become a flagbearer of the NPP is for delegates in the party to vote for him. But ...

Some angry youth believed to be supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) have set some properties of the party ablaze to protest the rumoured disqualification of the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) from the party’s internal primaries. According to reports reaching Angelfmonlinegh.com, the youth are known supporters of the MCE, who had sought to contest as MP on the party’s ...

Some anonymous aggrieved Ghanaian citizens have, through their lawyer Chris Arcmann-Ackummey, started processes for the removal of Electoral Commission Chair Jean Mensa just as her predecessor Charlotte Osei, was. In a letter to Mrs Mensa to demand her response to some eleven allegations made against her by the aggrieved citizens, their lawyer said her failure to accede to their request would compel ...

Some aggrieved supporters and delegates of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Asante Juaben constituency of the Ashanti region are demonstrating over the disqualification of a parliamentary aspirant Francis Owusu- Akyaw by party executives. Second National Vice Chairman of the party Fredrick Freduah Antoh on Thursday announced on Kumasi-based Abusua FM that some aspirants have been disqualified from ...