Ghana politics and election news

The Minority in Parliament has described the 2019 budget presented by the Minister of Finance, Mr. Ken Ofori-Atta, as empty, uninspiring and hopeless. 

Ex-President John Mahama will begin a campaign tour of the Ashanti Region today November 12, 2018.

Delegates of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) wishing to cash in on the approaching primary election for aspiring Presidential candidates will be disappointed as candidate Goosie Tanoh will prefer education to alloting out money.

The National Treasurer of the opposition National Democratic Congress Alhaji Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah wants NDC General Secretary, Asiedu Nketia to be rejected at the party’s forthcoming national primaries.

A retiring National Treasurer of the opposition National Democratic Congress, Alhaji Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, says he will split his 19 children who have attained voting age among the two biggest political parties in Ghana – NDC, and NPP.

Mr Kobby Barlon an NDC Deputy National Organiser hopeful says that, organising is a tough and complex job that requires a very thorough person who resonates with the grassroots.

Former President John Dramani Mahama has asked President Nana Akufo-Addo to apologize to Ghanaians for his empty talk over borrowing to run the economy.

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President Akufo Addo and his vice, then in opposition, constantly criticized the Mahama administration for excessive borrowing ahead of the 2016 election.

Mahama according to Vice President Bawumia had a voracious appetite for foreign loans, an action he described as “reckless” and “worrying.”

About two years into his Presidency, President Akufo-Addo said his government will continue borrowing money for projects.

The President also said the projects will be “assets” to pay back loans.

“Borrowing money is not aid. What President Xi Jinping offered is a $60 billion fund which African countries can access, not as aid but as loans. If you can produce a project that the Chinese think is worth supporting, you can have access to that money, but you have to pay it back.”

Former President added that remarks like the one the President made will only annoy Ghanaians.

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Speaking at a meeting with National Democratic Congress (NDC) delegates in Amasaman in the Greater Accra Region, John Mahama said the NPP owed Ghanaians an apology.

“It is the hypocrisy that Ghanaians are angry with and we have all your quotations about borrowing. You said any idiot can borrow. That is what you said.”

“…so today if you have turned around and you see that you can borrow and invest in assets, the first thing you do is apologize to Ghanaians and say you didn’t know; we are sorry, now we will borrow, even the US is borrowing. Of course, the US is borrowing. So what?”

President Akufo-Addo emphasized that every country borrows money for projects and Ghana is not an exception. Speaking at an entrepreneurship forum in Nigeria organized by the Tony Elumelo Foundation

The President was responding to a question on why Ghana goes for loans from China despite trumpeting the Ghana Beyond Aid mantra.

“We will borrow money; everybody borrows money. The United States of America is one of the biggest debtors in the world. So borrowing money is not necessarily a betrayal of the concept of independence. The key for us in borrowing money is that we borrow money to create assets that will allow us to pay the money back. That is the key…If we borrow the money and use it properly it is an asset for us in expanding our economy and infrastructure.”

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Ghana’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Papa Owusu Ankomah, has asserted that the Parliament of Ghana over the years has not been able to perform as mandated by law.

Information Minister-designate, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah will today October 26, 2018, face parliament’s Appointments Committee to be vetted.

The Electoral Commission, EC will today Thursday, October 25 to Thursday, October 31, 2018, begin the Exhibition of the Voters Register at all 47 Districts in the four proposed Regions to be created.

A founding member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Dr Nyaho Nyaho Tamakloe has said Vice President Dr Bawumia will never lead the NPP considering some of the believes held by the party.

The Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) has disclosed that “in 2016, a parliamentary candidate spent as much as $85,000 on average to contest his/her party’s primaries and the parliamentary elections in Ghana, and the most common source of revenue was personal income”.

NDC flagbearer aspirant John Mahama has said NPP used lies and sweet promises to hoodwink the electorate into voting for them in the 2016 elections, and now faltering to manage the country since the party’s own lies are coming full circle.

The Assembly member for Mafi Zongo in the Volta region Julius Karl Fieve has won the “One Young World’s Politician of the Year Award” in the Netherlands.

National Organiser of the opposition NDC, Kofi Adams, has said Ghanaians having realized that they have been short-changed by the ruling NPP, are now craving for former President  Mahama’s return as President of Ghana.