POLITICS

The chances of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in winning the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections do not depend on the new executives elected by the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) at its recently-held National Delegates Congress, Nana Obiri Boahen, Deputy General Secretary of the NPP, has said. According to him, whether or not the NPP will win ...

Pollster Ben Ephson has blamed the Volta caucus in the National Democratic Congress for their inability to clinch any position in the National executive body at the just ended congress of the party. It comes after former national women organizer Anita Desoso raised concerns over the nonexistence of a Voltarian – the largest vote constituency – of the party in ...

The Majority Leader and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu has said the process by which the two major Political Parties in Ghana, the New Patriotic Party(NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC), elect their leaders”is not known in any established democracies ” and therefore a recipe for corruption. According to him, election is not the only means ...

Klottey Korle MP, Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings, has said she is “willing” to support the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), the party her father, former president Jerry John Rawlings founded, to win the 2020 general elections by serving in “whatever capacity”. Asked directly by Moro Awudu, host of Class91.3FM’s Executive Breakfast Show at the party’s 9th National Delegates Congress grounds if she ...

Retained General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Johnson Asiedu Nketia has defended the decision by his immediate former deputy, Koku Anyidoho, to stand against him in the just ended national delegates congress. Asiedu Nketia, who beat Anyidoho by nearly 5,000 votes, rejected the tag of “betrayal” placed on Mr. Anyidoho for going up in the contest with someone ...

Former President John Mahama has advised members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to gird their loans and work hard because “poor performance of the NPP” government will not guarantee them an automatic victory in the 2020 elections. “Ghanaians are looking up to us. We cannot expect to win the 2020 elections by default of NPP’s poor performance in office. ...

After over 16 hours of voting and several hours of sorting and counting, provisional results indicate Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, Johnson Asiedu Nketia and Joshua Akamba will lead the National Democratic Congress for the next four years as Chairman, General Secretary and National Organiser, respectively. Below are results of the voting that took place at the 9th national delegates’ congress that ...

The newly elected National Chairman of the NDC Samuel Ofosu Ampofo has promised to carry all members along as he takes leadership of the party. “We won’t leave anyone behind. We will carry everyone along. I won’t sit in Accra and run the party from Accra, we will come to the districts and constituencies and engage you and deepen the ...

A former National Organiser of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says the delegates who voted him out in 2014 have regretted. According to him, the party fortunes took a nosedive after he was voted out of office. Boateng Gyan said they voted against him in favour of Kofi Adams and the results of that action have impacted negatively on ...

Johnson Asiedu Nketia is set to retain his position as the general secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress having taken a giant lead over his challenger Koku Anyidoho, provisional results have suggested. Out of the over 9000 delegates who voted, Koku secured 1,625 while his boss secured 6,642. It will be his forth term as general secretary of the ...