Ghana politics and election news

MP for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong says the NPP risks losing 2020 elections if it fails to deal with the widespread of political lawlessness caused by pro-New Patriotic Party (NPP) vigilante groups.

A Senior Lecturer at the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana says it is unwise for embattled Ghanaian Ambassador to South Africa to defend his remarks by equalization it with happening in the previous government.

The Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Mike Oquaye, is angry at Members of Parliament for being late for meetings of the House on Tuesday, October 31.

Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, says he is prepared to be fired from his position if he fails to deal with the widespread lawlessness caused by NPP vigilante groups in the country.

Uhuru Kenyatta was born on October 26, 1961, to Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, the founding father and first President of Kenya.

NDC’s Asiedu Nketia says Ghanaian electorates have regretted voting for the NPP due to the numerous violence that has branded the Akufo-Addo led government.

The Minority Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has called on Nana Addo to dismiss Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa, for stating publicly that his first commitment as a public officer, is to members of the NPP.

Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture has said it is needless and irrational for Ghanaians to believe the promise that all villages in the northern regions will have dams as promised prior to the 2016 campaigns.

The electoral commission will on today Monday announce results of the October 26 fresh presidential election and also state whether it will hold the poll in 25 constituencies where it was postponed.

Opposition leader Raila Odinga has condemned the violence that led to deaths and destruction of property in Dagoretti North constituency.

Former President John Mahama says that the increasing incidence of political vigilantism and hooliganism in the country perpetrated by foot soldiers of the ruling NPP is a result of what the party has nurtured its supporters to become.

NDC MP has said his party would provide Ghanaians with free University Education when voted into power.

Embattled General Secretary of the NPP, Kwabena Agyei Agyapong has sued a Kumasi-based NPP lawyer, Kwame Adofo who described him as the Judas Iscariot in the ruling party.

Editor of the Insight Newspaper has warned Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawmia risk being branded a non serious entity "if he continues to say things that are not true."

NDC presidential hopeful, Dr Spio-Garbrah has disclosed that as his campaign tactic, he will use women to entice delegates in the party for votes in the upcoming primaries.