Tag Archives: Mahama

Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Mahama has said he would have called for the vacant seat case to be moved from the Supreme Court if he were to be the president. To him, the issues can be best addressed through political means, not legal. Addressing the clergymen in Kumasi at the Great Hall, KNUST on Monday, ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has dismissed claims that he will cancel free senior high school programme if he becomes president. He described such comments as political gimmicks. “There is no truth in that, it is just a political gimmick free SHS has come to stay,” the presidential candidate of the Nationa Democratic Congress (NDC)  said when he was addressing ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo took a swipe at former President John Dramani Mahama, highlighting that Mahama remains Ghana’s only one-term president. President Akufo-Addo during a tour of the Ahafo Region on Tuesday, October 29, suggested that Mahama’s lack of a second term calls into question his credibility and political influence, suggesting he should not boast of a higher “level” ...

Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has described the five questions asked him by former President John Dramani Mahama as flimsy. Dr Bawumia said he thought Mr Mahama would have agreed to debate him one-on-one for these issues to be addressed however he has not accepted to debate him. This was after the presidential ...

Mr John Dramani Mahama, the Presidential Candidate for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has posed five crucial questions on the economy for Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice President and flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). Speaking at a mini-rally in Tatale, Northern Region, as part of his “Resetting Ghana” campaign tour, Mr. Mahama recalled that Dr. Bawumia had once presented ...

The Vice Presidential Candidate of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh, has dismissed former President John Mahama’s promise to create a new region for the people of Bawku as a blatant falsehood. Addressing a gathering of key stakeholders, including religious leaders, Zongo Chiefs, teachers, and students in Ashanti Mampong, Dr. Opoku Prempeh described the promise as ...

“I never saw the Vice President of His Excellency President John Evans Atta-Mills pay the kinds of compliments Vice President Bawumia pays to President Akufo-Addo,” NDC’s Koku Anyidoho wrote on Twitter recently, adding a photograph of Vice President Bawumia bowing to President Akufo-Addo when the Supreme Court dismissed Mahama’s election petition. Samuel Koku Anyidoho has been incessantly taunting former President John Dramani Mahama especially, and the ...

Former President John Mahama and former First Lady Lordina Mahama have received their first shots of the COVID-19 vaccine at the Police Hospital in Accra. On Monday, President Akufo-Addo and Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia took their first doses of the vaccine to shore up public confidence in the vaccine. The Ghana Health Service will today begin the national rollout ...

There seems to be a turf war stoking as a group calling itself the Progressive Akyem Citizens (PAC) fires back at another group with the name Concern Citizens of Okyeman, following the latter’s demonstration against the NDC flagbearer John Dramani Mahama. The Concern Citizens of Okyeman on Wednesday embarked on a demonstration, protesting against the usage of the “Akyem Sakawa ...

Majority Leader and Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has doubted the viability of the ambition of opposition NDC leader and former president, John Dramani Mahama to legalize the operations of motorbikes and tricycles popularly known as “Okada” for commercial public transportation if he wins the upcoming elections. The former president has argued that the illicit ‘Okada’ business which is fast ...