POLITICS

wo former ministers under the John Mahama-led government have been cited as being a part of the reasons the National Democratic Congress lost the December 2016 general elections, a member of the Dr Kwesi Botchwey Committee has revealed. According to Dr. Ibrahim Zuberu, it was established that the actions of former Finance Minister, Seth Terkper and former Communications Minister, Dr ...

Prof Joshua Alabi has congratulated the Kwesi Botchwey Committee, which was tasked to investigate the circumstances that led to the defeat of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2016 general election. In a statement signed and copied to Ghanapoliticsonline.com, the Professor stated that he joins all colleague comrades of the great NDC, well-wishers of the great party and lovers ...

The constituency women organiser of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Tamale South Constituency, Afishetu Abdul-Wahab has rendered an unqualified apology to the Northern regional chairman of the party,Mr Daniel Bugri Naabu. The apology comes on the back of calls on the constituency executives of the party to punish Madam Afishetu for her role in the infamous Bugri ...

The economic figures and lectures presented by the then running mate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia became one of the last straws that broke the back of the Mahama administration in the 2016 elections. According to a former Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Afrifa Yamoah Ponkoh, the lectures which exposed the economic indices of the country, he ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said this could have been his second term in office had he and two others: Dr Mahamudu Bawumia (now Vice President) and Mr Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey (late Chairman of the New Patriotic Party), had a favourable verdict from the Supreme Court after the 2012 disputed election results which they fought in court. The apex court affirmed the ...

A former minister, Murtala Mohammed, has laughed off President Nana Akufo-Addo’s warning to New Patriotic Party supporters and Ghanaians in general that he would not shield lawbreakers in the country. According to Mr Mohammed who was a Deputy Trade Minister under the John Mahama-led government, President Akufo-Addo has since assuming office, failed in pursuing justice and that he is superintending ...

The National Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Adams, has stated that the party did not envisage losing the 2016 election. President Akufo-Addo garnered 5, 716, 609 votes, representing 53.84 percent to snatch the presidency from former president John Mahama who secured 4,713,277 votes, representing 44.40 percent. The NDC also lost more than 40 parliamentary seats to the ...

The founder and leader of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Jerry John Rawlings deliberately took actions that he knew would lead to the defeat of the party in the 2016 elections, an active member of the party has disclosed. Afrifa Yamoah Ponkoh speaking on Adom FM’s Morning Show, ‘Dwaso Nsem’ Tuesday said the founder should be the first person to ...

The 13-member Kwesi Botchwey Committee constituted and mandated to investigate what caused the embarrassing defeat of the NDC at the 2016 polls yesterday (June 19, 2017) presented a 455-page report to the National Executive Council detailing the party’s shortfall hence defeat. But General Secretary of the party, Asiedu Nketia who spoke to ghanaweb.com exclusively described the voluminous report as inconclusive ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has asked the police to arrest New Patriotic Party (NPP) executives perpetrating acts of violence in the Savelugu/Nantong Municipality of the Northern Region. Some executives of the NPP last week stormed the premises of the Savelugu-Nanton Municipal Assembly to prevent the newly approved Municipal Chief Executive for the area, Hajia Ayishetu Seidu, from entering her office. Wielding ...