The Electoral Commission (EC) has received  presidential nomination forms from seventeen individuals for consideration as candidates for the December 7 polls.
In a bid to woo youthful voters, National Democratic Party (NDP) flagbearer, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings has chosen 47-year-old Michael Sosu as her running mate.
The suspended National Youth Organizer of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Ernesto Yeboah, has described his party’s flagbearer, Kobina Ivor Greenstreet, as a person who condones corruption and hence does not qualify to lead Ghana.
With EC deadline time ever creeping close to 5pm, the Great Consolidated Popular Party’s (GCPP) Dr. Henry Herbert Lartey has filed his nomination papers.
The GH¢50,000 and GH¢10,000 fee set for presidential and parliamentary hopefuls hasn’t only rubbed badly on the Progressive People’s Party but also on other parties including the former First Lady, Konadu Agyemang Rawlings.
Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyepong earned the praise of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, running mate of the New Patriotic Party’s presidential nominee, Nana Akufo-Addo.
The Policy Advisor to the Progressive Peoples Party, Kofi Asamoah Siaw has noted that the report by the Commission of Human Right and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) was a failed attempt to cover the misconduct of President John Mahama.
It was a curious affair at the Electoral Commission Headquarters in Accra when the chairman of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) filed the nomination papers of its presidential candidate, Paa Kwesi Ndoum on deadline date today but curiously added the GH¢50,000 charged fee they disputed leading to a suit they filed at the Accra High Court.
With the Convention People’s Party’s presidential candidate, Ivor Kobina Greentsreet naming 72-year old retired diplomat, Nana Gabby Nsiah Nketiah as his running mate, the founder and presidential candidate of the of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP), Akua Donkor, who was at the Electoral Commission’s (EC) head office was queried by media men about who could be partnering her on the ticket.
The Progressive People’s Party’s (PPP) effort at placing an injunction on the receipt of nomination papers by the Electoral Commission could delay the electoral plans of the commission for the 2016 polls according to Mr. Dzakpasu.
Minority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has expressed his dissatisfaction with the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice's (CHRAJ) conclusion on the controversial Ford gift given to President John Mahama by a Burkinabe contractor, Djibril Kanazoe describing their approach to the investiagtion as rudimentary.
A preacher claims three New Patriotic Party functionaries will die before presidential nominee, Nana Akufo-Addo is sworn in as president come January 2017.
The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of the Assin North Municipal Assembly, Dr Kofi Blankson in the Central has expressed his displeasure at attempts by Assin Central Member of Parliament (MP), Kennedy Agyapong to commission a Market Shed constructed at Foso, the municipal capital with the MP's share of the common fund.
A 72-year old retired diplomat , Nana Gabby Nsiah Nketiah, has been named as the running mate of Convention Peoples  Party (CPP) Preisdential Candidate, Ivor Kobina Greentsreet
