Ghana politics and election news

Member of Parliament for North Tongu Constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has said, President Nana Akufo- Addo's ban on the purchase of new vehicles by Ministries, Departments and Agencies(MDAs) does not hold as new cars were bought before the directive was issued.

Deputy Finance Minister nominee,Kwaku Agyeman Kwarteng has said, it will be important for Ghanaians to shift focus from the number of Ministers named by President Nana Akufo-Addo and rather pay attention to his cost-cutting measures.

Sekou Nkrumah, the last child of Ghana's first president, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, has launched a brutal attack on Mike Ocquaye, the speaker of parliament, describing him as a big fool.

The Member of Parliament for Dome Kwabenya and Minister of State-designate for Procurement, Sarah Adwoa Safo has promised to streamline government's procurement practices to ensure value for money for the state.

Former President John Mahama has urged members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to abandon the debate about which individual gets to lead the party in 2020 and focus on the more pressing task of helping the party regain power.

The Bonwire executives and the members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ejisu-Juaben municipality of the Ashanti region have opposed the appointment of Maame Serwaa Derchie as the Municipal Chief Executive officer of the municipality.

Parliament’s Appointment Committee is expected to continue its vetting of President Nana Akufo-Addo’s ministerial nominees today [Monday] March 27 with four ministers of state designate slated to appear before it.

Ghana’s former High Commissioner to India, Sam Pee Yalley has dared the Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Allotey Jacobs to drop the supposed ‘bomb’ on his mind about NDC defeat.

The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has called on President Nana Akufo-Addo to disband the Invincible Forces, a vigilante group of the New Patriotic Party, immediately.

The editor-in-chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, has called for a "focused probe" into the Kintampo waterfalls disaster, which killed 20 people on Sunday.

Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has described the current troubles in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) as "just a passing wind" which will normalise in no time.

The troubles of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) seem to be getting deeper and deeper and the divisions getting wider and wider as the days go by.

Senior lecturer at the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana Professor Ransford Gyampoh, has cautioned that the egoistic attitude of some of the communicators of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) even in opposition, if not checked critically, will put the party in opposition for a long time.

Allotey Jacobs, the Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has said that there are a lot of issues on his mind and that the party will collapse if he speaks out.

Dr Kwabena Adjei, a former National Democratic Congress (NDC) national chairman, has criticsed what he said was former President Jerry Rawlings’ constant media outbursts.