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Former President John Mahama says the Presidential directive to the Auditor General to proceed on leave sets a dangerous precedent for the country. According to the NDC flagbearer, President Akufo-Addo’s treatment of the auditor general is a reflection of the general politicisation of key state institutions under the NPP administration. “If the president can ask the Auditor General to go ...

Former President John Mahama has accused President Akufo-Addo of setting Ghana’s democracy back. According to the NDC flagbearer, the President has compromised state institutions with politics and oppressed Parliament. “This particular tragedy is in the destruction and politicization of our institutions. A judiciary that lacks impartiality, an oppressed Parliament, a pliant Electoral Commission, an Auditor General hounded out of office, ...

Former President John Mahama says a future NDC government will within one year pay all customers whose investment have been locked up as a result of the financial sector cleanup undertaken by government. “We will Within one year of being in office pay customers of the collapsed financial institutions all funds locked up. We shall not put together any long ...

Former President John Mahama has described his running-mate Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang as the best choice for Ghana. According to him, the former Education Minister is more than competent to be the Vice President of the country. “With Prof Naana, we can say we have made the best choice for Ghana. I have in my partner a veep who will ...

Former President John Mahama has called on Chiefs and traditional leaders in the Tongor area of the Volta region to urge their people to come out and register if the Electoral Commission begins the mass voter’s registration exercise. According to the NDC flagbearer, taking part in the registration exercise will enable them cast their ballot in order to decide the ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has sent a strong indication yet that no one should assume that his party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), will accept the results of the December 7 elections if they found the process to have been partial. For him, all citizens of Ghana are entitled to vote and the question of citizenship is unambiguous. “As ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama on December 1, 2019, clashed with Rev. Owusu Bempah at the Holy Ghost Revival Center of the Assemblies of God Church, South Odorkor, Accra. Both Mahama and Rev. Bempah had been invited by the Church to grace their 30th Anniversary. The incident happened when Rev Bempah, who had to leave earlier because he had to ...

Private legal practitioner Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko has said that the use of ‘State Capture’ by former President John Dramani Mahama and the former CEO of GNPC to describe President Akufo-Addo-led government’s involvement in the ongoing PDS saga is unwarranted. He says he doubts whether the former president and his cohorts have an accurate understanding of what ‘State Capture’ actually means ...

The Director General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare, has said no Ghanaian Muslim woman was trained in Cuba as a gynaecologist over the past six years as being claimed by former president John Mahama. Speaking at the Al Sunna Eid Prayers on the occasion of Eid ul Adha at the Efua Sutherland Park in Accra, Mr. Mahama ...

Flagbearer of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama has pledged to “work hard” to provide jobs for the youth and reduce the high cost of living in the country if he is re-elected president in the 2020 elections. “I am ready, very ready! I am ready to work hard to provide jobs for our youth and ...