Ghana politics and election news

The NPP has summoned Deputy General Secretary Nana Obiri Boahen before the party's Steering Committee after he was captured in an audio conversation saying the Presidency gifted the party GHC50 billion in 2017 to conduct its National Annual Delegates Conference held at Cape Coast.

The opposition NDC has said, in tandem with Transparency International‘s Corruption Perception Index (CPI), the public perception of corruption was generally better under the NDC government than the NPP.

Former President Jerry Rawlings has cautioned the NDC risks a very long stay in opposition if the thoughts of certain party leaders hold true.

General Secretary of the NDC,  Johnson Asiedu Nketia has stated that the Opposition party will not release former GYEEDA National Coordinator Abuga Pele from prison if the party wins the 2020 elections.

The NPP's Women’s Organiser in the Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese constituency, Elizabeth Gaisie, has died, just a few hours after being re-elected to the position on Saturday.

Former President John Mahama says  Nana Addo's administration promised Ghanaians 'the moon' during the 2016 election campaign and after a year in office citizens are yet to see "the clouds".

Former President John Dramani Mahama has criticised the NPP for implementing their flagship Free SHS policy in a haste.

Some NPP members in the Cape Coast South Constituency of the Central Region have secured an injunction to stop the election of executives for that constituency this Sunday.

Former President Jerry John Rawlings on Friday re-registered as a member of the National Democratic Congress. He also paid his membership dues for the next 3 years.

National Youth Organiser of the NDC Kofi Adams has questioned the integrity of Martin Amidu describing him as a dishonest person after he said in his latest article that he refused to provide evidence to some of his corruption articles because the questions were from partisan MPs.

Former Deputy Communications Minister Felix Kwakye-Ofosu says the NPP government should not blame the NDC for the latest Corruption Perception Index which the current Government performed abysmally.

Dr Valerie Sawyerr, former Deputy Chief of Staff in the erstwhile NDC administration, has stated that the opposition party is not in any way praying for demise of Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.

NDC MP for Bolgatanga East and former Deputy Attorney General, Dr. Dominic Ayine says he occasionally regrets going into active politics.

Sammy Crabbe, embattled 2nd Vice Chair of the ruling NPP,  has disclosed that the Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Oquaye, is not in talking terms with him because he supported Sarah Adwoa Safo to win the NPP primaries in the Dome Kwabenya Constituency and subsequently entered Parliament as MP for the area.

NDC MP for Bolgatanga East and former Deputy Attorney General Dr Dominic Ayine has described as indecent the activities of the current Parliament of Ghana led by Professor Mike Ocquaye.