POLITICS

Former President Mahama’s threat to mobilize members of the NDC to unleash violence during the 2020 general elections has attracted tacit responses from some leading members of the main opposition party who are ostensibly unhappy about the utterances. They include the NDC founder and former President Jerry John Rawlings, who has warned: “Those who are bent on using violence to ...

A former National Security Minister under the Jerry John Rawlings’s administration, Kofi Totobi Quakyi, has described as “traitors” persons who have counselled President Nana Akufo-Addo on the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election violence. The former minister has also condemned the incidents of violence which occurred at the residence of the NDC candidate, Delali Kwasi Brempong, and the La Bawleshie Presby School ...

Outspoken member of parliament(MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has fired back at the family of late undercover journalist Ahmed Hussein-Suale for organizing a press conference with the intention of tarnishing his reputation. At a press conference to address some assertions reported in the media on Suale’s death in Accra yesterday, a spokesperson for the family, Mr Mustapha Iddrisu, ...

Dr Sekou Nkrumah, the youngest son of Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president, has said Mr Totobi Quakyi lacks the moral right to write to President Nana Akufo-Addo to condemn the violence that marred the Ayawaso West Wuogon by election on Thursday, 31 January 2019 because similar violence occurred under the then National Democratic Congress (NDC) government in the 1990’s ...

A former Minister of National Security, Mr Totobi Quakyi has said the response by the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Mrs Jean Mensa to some observations of the Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) as far as the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election was concerned, shows her degree of “political immaturity”. The EC Chair disagreed with CODEO’s observations at the close ...

The Supreme Court has dismissed a suit by Editor in- chief of the Crusading Guide, Mr Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Junior, challenging the impeachment of former chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Ms Charlotte Osei. Mr Baako argued that Mrs Osei was not impeached based the performance of her core functions as the EC Chairperson. He, therefore, wanted an interpretation ...

The family of Ahmed Suale has slammed the decision by the Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyepong, to place a GHc100, 000 bounty on the killers of Suale. According to the family, the MP – who they blame for Suale’s death – is attempting to thwart and undermine the ongoing investigations. We regret that in this difficult moment…we ...

The Chairman of the National Peace Council has attributed the shooting incident which took place during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election to the lack of coordination on the part of security agencies. While voting was ongoing at the La Bawaleshie Presbyterian Basic School 1 Polling Station, some masked armed men besieged the residence of the NDC candidate in the election, ...

Veteran statesman and private legal practitioner, Sam Okudzeto, has slammed former President John Mahama for his comments following disturbances during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election in Accra. The Council of State member told Joy FM’s Super Morning Show Monday that the former President ought to have been more decorous with his utterances on the episode. “Unfortunately that also is irresponsibility…what ...

Daniel Bugri Naabu, former Northern regional chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party, says President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo deserves the world peace prize for ensuring the restoration of peace to Dagbon after so many years of conflict. President Akufo-Addo in the lead up to the 2016 elections promised that he would make sure Dagbon regained its past glory by ...