Ghana politics and election news

A leader without principle, a leader without commitment, a leader incapable of maintaining the truth and telling the truth to the people does not deserve the trust of the people of Ghana. He does not deserve the trust of the people of Ghana. We cannot trust Mahama. The Ghanaian people cannot trust John Dramani Mahama.”

Today marks exactly one week after supporters of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) going on a health walk clashed with private security men at the Nima residence of the presidential candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in Accra leading the police to swiftly intervene.

The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party(NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has bemoaned the politics of tribalism and ethnicity being waged by President John Mahama in his campaign in the North, with 16 days to the conduct of the December 7 elections.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) does not see Northerners as fit to assume any top leadership role within their party, President John Mahama has said. 

Former Minister of Trade and Industry, and currently NPP Campaign Sector Committee Chairperson for Trade and Industry, Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, says every government, since 1957, has undertaken infrastructural development, and should, therefore, not be the trump card of any government defending its record in office.

The Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akomea, has praised the Kwame Nkrumah Circle Interchange project, which was commissioned recently by the government.

Abdul Mali Kwaku Baako, the Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, has urged embattled businessman, Alfred Agbesi Woyome, to stop making public statements on his GHC51 million judgment debt case which is before the Supreme Court.

The death of the Asantehemaa, Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem has put in limbo the much publicised "JM Toaso Health Walk" which was to be held tomorrow in the Ashanti Regional capital of Kumasi by the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

President John Dramani Mahama has asked the New Patriotic Party(NPP) to desist from claims that the Electoral Commission (EC) is planning to rig the elections in his favour.

The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has stated that, unlike President John Mahama, he will never tell the people of his home region to vote for him simply because he hails from there.

President John Dramani Mahama has mocked US President-elect, Donald J. Trump, for appearing to flip-flop on some key promises he made during campaigning ahead of the election.

Presidential Candidate of the Progressive People's Party (PPP), Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom has accused President John Mahama and his ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) of engaging in "daylight robbery" in order to win the December 7 polls.

President Mahama has strongly denied a claim by former attorney general, Martin Amidu, that he ordered the current  AG to withdraw a court application which sought to conduct an oral examination of businessman Alfred Agbesi  Woyome over his GH¢51 million debt to the nation.

Ghanaians must not allow themselves to be misled by people who will "promise heaven and earth" in order to win power without recourse to the realities of governance, President John Mahama has said.

Nana Asare Akowua, Krontihene of the Akwamu Traditional Area, on behalf of the Akwamu Traditional Council, has declared the “unflinching and unalloyed support” of the Akwamu Kingdom, to the 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.