Ghana politics and election news

Contender for the presidential seat, Nana Addo has hit back at Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah who admonished the elderly not to allow their sweet tooth to lead them into consuming sugary beverages stressing grown-ups who consume the Kalyppo beverage were sure to get ‘Kalyppolities.’

Former Attorney General and Foreign Affairs minister in the Kufuor regime, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says he will implement every pledge he’s made when voted for as Ghana’s next president.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) is aiming at stopping the New Patriotic Party (NPP) from winning 100,000 votes in the Volta Region in the December 7 polls, General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia has hinted.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has identified about 300 enterprises to be developed across the length and breadth of the country as part of its one-district-one-factory policy.

A New Patriotic Party (NPP), affiliated group, the Truth Forum has castigated Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah for purported comments he made in the Bono-Ahafo Region urging folks to opt for healthier options instead of patronizing, the fruit drink, Kalyppo whose images flooded the internet and sales boomed after a photo emerged of NPP Presidential Aspirant, Nana Addo taking a good sip.

President John Dramani has again thrown a challenge to the Flagbearer of the opposition New Patriotic Party(NPP) Nana Akuffo Addo face him in an open debate on the true state of the nation’s economy.

PPP presidential aspirant, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom and the Electoral Commission (EC) have a Monday deadline to meet in filing statements making their case as to why Ndoum must be on the ballot or otherwise.

Deputy Minister for Communication, Felix Kwakye Ofosu has backed claims by President John Mahama that there is an anti-National Democratic Congress (NDC) section of the media which is downplaying the development projects he had undertaken.

Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO), has released the second batch of its environmental election findings ahead of the December 7 polls.

New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential aspirant, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufu-Addo was at Asawasi in the Ashanti Region on tour where he informed the people, it is only the NPP which can wrestle power from the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC).

The Head of Communications at the Electoral Commission (EC), Eric Dzapkasu has stated that the commission has restrained itself from conducting presidential ballot placement due to suits slapped on it by aggrieved presidential aspirants who want to be reinstated as eligible candidates.

In a country where people admire and reward humility, politicians tend to do anything to prove that they are humble.

There will be no Asee Ho or Esoro Ho slogan for parliamentary candidates of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) or the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the upcoming general elections.

It was Ghana’s best kept secret that Ghana Freedom Party’s (GFP) failed presidential aspirant Akua Donkor had much love of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), especially its leader, President Dramani Mahama.

President Mahama who is running on the National Democratic Congress (NDC) ticket says he is focused on his second term bid and won’t waste time responding to vile propaganda or loose talk by the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).