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Mahama pledges to build plant for Osudoku Area over NDC loyalty

President Mahama has told the chiefs and people of the Shai Osudoku Area that their loyalty in voting for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is set to be rewarded with pharma centres which will offer quality seedlings to farmers as well as provide technical support in a bid to help advance their farming fortunes but added he requires their votes to win the December polls for the pledge to be fulfilled.

Vote for Sam George, E.T Mensah will be sorted - Mahama

At Ningo-Prampam, President Mahama prayed the electorates to vote for parliamentary aspirant, Sam George Nettey adding “my bother E.T is very important in the NDC but time comes to move on. E.T will not find it difficult to have something to do in my government.”

EC lawyer responds to Konadu’s lawyer

Counsel for the Electoral Commission Thaddeus Sory says the flagbearer of the National Democratic Party (NDP), Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings, cannot blame the commission for her disqualification from the 2016 presidential election list.

Akufo-Addo off to Germany, UK

New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has left Ghana for a private trip to Germany and the United Kingdom, a statement signed by his press secretary, Eugene Arhin has said.

According to the statement, Nana Addo will return on Tuesday October 18 to start a 4-day tour of the party's stronghold, the Ashanti Region.

The 72-year-old Akufo-Addo is one of the four candidates to have been qualified by the Electoral Commission to contest in the December 7 general elections.

READ ALSO: EC okays only four for Dec 7 polls; all others disqualified

Below is the brief statement:

AKUFO-ADDO LEAVES FOR GERMANY, UK

The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, left the shores of Ghana on Thursday, October 13, 2016, for a 4-day private trip to Germany and the United Kingdom.

He returns to Ghana on Tuesday, October 18, ahead of the commencement of a 4-day tour of the Ashanti Region, beginning Wednesday, October 19, 2016.

……signed……
Eugene Arhin
Press Secretary