Ghana politics and election news

Economic conditions in Ghana have improved so much that youth organisers of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) who could not marry during their eight years in power have started marrying, President John Mahama has stated. 

There seems to be confusion in the All People's Congress (APC) over which candidate to support in the December 7 elections.

A member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) legal team, Abraham Amaliba, says the embattled businessman, Alfred Agbesi Woyome, also has a right to make a living despite finding himself at the center of the controversial GHC51million judgment debt saga.

The presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, told the victims of the DKM scandal: "I will pay you back in full when I become president".

Kweku Baako, the Editor-in-Chief of the Crusading Guide Newspaper, has expressed his disappointment at the new GHC35 million Woyome scandal, stating that it should not have been allowed to happen and that is offensive to the citizenry.

It is no secret that the relationship between former President Jerry John Rawlings and his National Democratic Congress (NDC) is not like what it used to be and it's come as no shock that he's not playing any leading role in their campaign with less than two weeks to the 2016 general elections.

New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for the Awutu Senya West Constituency in the Central Region, George Andah is a miser who hardly donates money at programmes he attends and must therefore not be voted, District Chief Executive(DCE) for Awutu Senya District in the Central Region, Sampson Abbey Armah has stated.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has called for a probe into the printing of ballot papers for the December 7 presidential and parliamentary elections the entire process has been compromised.

Presidential Candidate of the People's National Convention (PNC), Dr Edward Mahama has called for the postponement of the December 7 polls because going ahead will be unfair to himself and the others who were disqualified from contesting but reinstated later.

The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has appealed to the electorate in the Upper West Region to reunite, once again, with the NPP and help push the ‘Elephant’ into Jubilee House on December 7. 

National orgainzer and Campaign Coordinator of the incumbent National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Adams has described the assertions that the voters register for the December 7 polls is bloated “senseless”

Ghana's ambassador to Namibia, Alhaji Harruna Attah has dismissed criticisms aimed at President John Mahama for his some comments he made against the New Patriotic Party (NPP) which were deemed as ethnocentric.

Former Minsiter of State at the Presidency in charge of Public Sector Reforms and incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for the Builsa South Constituency on the ticket of the Peoples National Convention (PNC), Hon. Alhassan Azong, has in a letter cited by Rainbow Radio vowed to support the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) to unseat the President, John Dramani Mahama. 

“I am promising you that within 18 months of a new government of the NPP, under my leadership, the face of our country, Ghana, is going to change. We are going to get out of stagnation and backwardness and move our country onto the path of progress and prosperity. We can do it. We, the Ghanaian people, have the capacity to change the circumstances of our lives.”