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A political science lecturer has warned the National Democratic Congress will jeopardise its chances of winning the 2020 elections should it elect former president John Mahama as its flagbearer. In the analysis of Dr. Osei Bonsu of the Methodist University, nothing has changed from the events and factors that led to the “miserable” defeat of Mahama in the 2016 presidential election for him to make a comeback. Even though Mahama has since losing the election remained tight-lipped over calls by some party members for him to declare to once again run for the party’s flagbearership, he on Saturday responded favourably to the calls.“To you the teeming supporters and sympathizers calling and requesting me to declare my intentions for the future, I wish to assure you today, that as a servant-leader, I have listened to your calls and reflected. “I will not disappoint you even as we await the publication of the party’s guidelines for selecting a new leader,” he indirectly declared to contest...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has given the strongest indication yet that he’s going to contest the Presidency in the 2020 general polls. According to him, he has reflected on the numerous calls by the party’s teeming supporters and sympathizers to declare his intention to contest in 2020; adding “I have listened to your calls”Mahama who has been silent on his intention to contest wrote on his facebook page: “I want to congratulate the rank & file and executives of our party, the NDC, at all levels for the commitment and work we have put into our reorganization efforts. The zeal and determination of the average sympathizer ofour great party is greater and miles ahead of what it was after the December 2016 Elections. We need to keep up with the momentum generated and follow the published timelines. To you the teeming supporters and sympathizers calling and requesting me to declare my intentions for the future, I wish to assure you today, that as a servant-leader, I have l...

The main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is coming back into power in 2020, former President John Mahama has said. Although he is yet to declare his political future, Mr Mahama told the NDC’s maiden Conference of Ex-MMDCEs on Saturday that with their help at the grassroots level, the party would surely return to the reins of government after the 2020 elections. “We count on you to help us at the lower level, the grassroots level to make sure that things go very well”, Mr Mahama charged the ex-MMDCes, adding: “We have the ability to capture more than 50 seats back from the NPP in the next elections if we handle ourselves well and if we’re to handle ourselves well and make this reorganisation effective, then you cannot exclude the role of DCEs at the grassroots level and I’m sure that with the zeal and the passion that I’ve seen in you today, nothing makes me doubt that by the grace of God, Insha Allah, we’ll win 2020 and come back into government”. If he decides to run ...

Late highlife musician, Jewel Ackah will be buried on August 4, 2018 in Axim.This was made known at the one week observance of his passing which was held at the Sakasaka Park at Tema, Community Two. A wake keeping and thanksgiving service will be held on August 3 and 5 respectively.Many sympathisers, friends and family converged at the Sakasaka Park near the Community Two Police Station toshow their respect to the legend. Also in attendance are political figures mostly from the National Democratic Congress (NDC). Among them are the party’s Greater Accra Regional Chairman, Mr Joseph Ade Coker, Yaw Boateng-Djan, former National Organiser, Anita De Sosoo and Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah, MP for Ellembele constituency.Former President John Dramani Mahama was also in attendance to mourn the late Ackah. He donated an amount of GHC12,000 to the family in support of the funeral.Jewel Ackah, popularly known as the Prince of Hi-Life, started his career as a professional footballer but went on to ...

Ghana’s former President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings has called on the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to embrace the politics of conscience, truth and the power of conviction as it seeks to return to power in 2020. The Founder of the NDC said it is important the party recognized the reasons it lost the 2016 election in order to put in place corrective measures for a positive performance in 2020. The strength of the NDC the former President said, lay in attaining political power through the power of the people, not the power of the affluent. Flt. Lt. Rawlings said the party was not unified, not in touch with the grassroots and did not inspire confidence in the electorate during the run up to the last election and called on the party to re-embrace its cores values of truth, integrity, probity and accountability. In an address read on his behalf by a leading member of the party, Samuel Nuamah Donkor at a conference organized by former NDC Municipal and District Chief Executives in...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has expressed his disappointment in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government for promoting nepotism in its administration. Delivering his speech at the maiden National Conference of Ex-MMDCES on Saturday, May 12, 2018, Mr. Mahama stated that the failure of the NPP government to create equal opportunities for all Ghanaians destroys the spirit ofoneness. “One of the things that I feel sad about is a certain tendency that is destroying the spirit of national integration and unity. We might belong to different political parties but we are Ghanaians first and foremost, and the opportunities of this country should open up to all Ghanaians. “This is why President Mills had the mantra ‘father for all’.It meant that he was president of all Ghanaians and so allGhanaians should enjoy all opportunities. During our administration, we as much as possible ensured that the opportunities were open to everybody. So NDC businessmen were working, NPP businessmen we...

The Young Professionals (YP), a pro-National Democratic Congress (NDC) group, has pointed out the failures in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government. At a press conference in Accra, Wednesday to rate the Akufo-Addo administration, the group accused government of going contrary to its promise of providing jobs for the teeming unemployed youth in the country. According to the Young Professionals, instead of creating employment, the NPP rather uprooted workers from their position, whom they believed were in a way associated to the NDC and replaced them with their party loyalists. Thenticked the act as ‘creating employment’. The group described the aforementioned acts as a ‘replacement’ instead of the job creation agenda the NPP promised Ghanaians during the 2016 campaign. They cited the rise of hooligans after the 2016 election by the NPP Invincible Forces, who reportedly took over toll booths and assaulted officers of the National Health Insurance Scheme, “sacked them from the offi...

National Vice Chairperson of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Anita Desoso has blamed the current unemployment status of nurses and health professionals on their hasty decision to vote the New Patriotic Party (NPP) into power. President Akufo-Addo, as part of his 2016 campaign message, assured nurses across the country of the full restoration of their allowances if he is voted into power. According to him, the training of more healthcare and education professionals was of the utmost importance, hence the need to restore the allowances. The health professionals who bought into the campaign message now seem to have their hopes dashed as they continue in the fight against delayed financial clearance for employment. However, Madam Desoso maintained that the agitated health professionals should have given it a thorough thought before voting for the NPP while claiming the NDC had good intentions for them. She explained that in a bid to find a way to solve the issue of Doctors goi...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has described the Akufo-Addo-led government as “super incompetent”. According to him, the president has “loaded” his government with his relatives and tries to justify his every decision, although he criticised same when in opposition. Speaking to supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) at the party’s Unity Walk in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Rgion on Saturday, 5 May 2018, Mr Mahama said: “One of the tags they put on us very successfully was that we were an incompetent government. I must say if you look at what this government has done so far in the one year three months, if that is what they call competence, I call it super incompetence, and, so, the government should be up and doing.“They are changing all the rules of the game. When we were in government, they said: ‘The size of government was too high, you must reduce the size of government’. Then when they come into government and they appoint 110 ministers, 998 [presidential] ...

Former National Organiser of the leading opposition party National Democratic Congress (NDC), Yaw Boateng Gyan has kicked against Stephen Atubiga’s decision to contest in the flag bearership race of NDC and has described it as a joke. According to the former organiser, his decision brings “comic relief to Ghanaians.”So far, apart from Mr Atubiga, about four other leading members of the NDC have launched their bid to contest in the race. They are former Majority Leader of Parliament, Alban Bagbin; former Rector of the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), Prof Joshua Alabi; Ekow Spio-Garbrah, former Minister of Trade and Industry; and Mr Sylvester Mensah, former Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA). Mr Mahama is yet to declare whether he will contest or not. Addressing members of the NDC in Kumasi on Saturday, 28 April 2018, during the party’s Unity Walk, Mr Mahama said God will choose a leader for the party.“God himself will choose s...

Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has said the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has become uncomfortable and troubled following the launch of the Nation Builders Corps (NABCo). The NDC has expressed its opposition to government’s plan to hire 100,000 unemployed graduates as part of NABCo.The largest opposition party has said the government program ‘Nation Builders Corps’ (NABCo) offers no new plan to create jobs but a duplication of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA). It has also said the GHS700 salary for the employees ridicules the value of a tertiary level certificate. NABCo will initially operate seven modules designed to meet the pressing needs of the nation while providing jobsfor the teeming youth who have received tertiary education but are struggling to find jobs. The modules include the Feed Ghana module where people serve as agric extension officers to help our farmers. There’s also the Educate Ghana module where p...

The desperation to come back tomorrow power is the enzyme behind former President John Dramani Mahama’s call on illegal mining operators to vote the NDC back to power so that it would be their passport to returning to their work as miners. According to the former President, the NPP promised to allow galamseyers to continue with their operations, but the opposite is what has been fed them when the party was voted for by Ghanaians, including those in the galamsey business. “They deceived you into voting for them. Now that they have power, they tell you you don’t deserve to eat anymore and have starved you of your livelihood. All you need to do is to vote them out of office in 2020, and I promise you that you will go back to work. Bring back NDC to power and you will go back to do your mining” former President Mahama assured them. The above comments were made by the ex-President of the Republic, John Dramani Mahama at the NDC’s unity walk event held in Kumasi on Saturday, 28th day of A...

Felix Ofosu Kwakye Former Deputy Communications Minister, Felix Kwakye Ofosu has condemned President Akufo-Addo’s “frivolous” staff at the Jubilee House, and wants Ghanaians to rise up before it would be too late. Commenting on the list of 998 staff released by President Akufo-Addo as workers at the seat of government on 3FM’s News Hour Friday, Kwakye Ofosu minced no words calling the list “totally outrageous, totally unjustifiable”. “In all honesty, the president has done a terrible deed by appointing all these number of people. He is deliberately wasting taxpayers’ money, and all of us as Ghanaians must rise up and question his conduct, and not allow him to run this country aground before we express regret at a later date, when it would be too late.” The former deputy minister accused the president of constituting a government full of family and friends.“This is the president who appears only interested in enhancing the fortunes of his relatives, family and friends and members of...

Inusah Fuseini is member of Parliament for Tamale Central The ruling government is intentionally targeting former government appointees under the John Mahama administration just to ‘defame’ them, according to Inusah Fuseini. The Member of Parliament for Tamale Central and the former Minister for Lands and Natural Resources is part of a number of government appointees who have been accused of receiving double salaries as MPs and also as Ministers. Some of the names mentioned are Alban Bagbin, MP for Nadowli West in the Upper West Region; ET Mensah, one of the ‘three wise men’ under Mahama’s presidency and former MP for Ningo Prampram; Haruna Iddrisu, former Minister of Employment and Labour Relations and MP for Tamale South, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, former Petroleum Minister and MP for Ellembelle in the Western Region andNii Lantey Vanderpuye and former Youth and Sports Minister and MP for Odododiodioo Constituency. These officials have accused President Akufo-Addo of using the Pol...