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  • NPP will win December polls based on performance Mac-Manu

    The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has refuted claims by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) that it is colluding with the Electoral Commission (EC) to rig the December 7 Elections.

    The Party said the President Akufo-Addo-led Government had shown better leadership than the NDC Presidential Candidate, Mr John Dramani Mahama, and based on that the electorate would renew the mandate of the Government in the December polls.

    Addressing a news conference to respond to the NDC allegations in Accra on Thursday, Mr Peter Mac-Manu, the NPP Campaign Manager for the December 2020 Elections, said the Party did not need the EC to rig the polls in its favour, but would campaign to win based on its sound track record.

    He recounted some achievements of the ruling government including the Free Senior High School that had enrolled 1.3 million children, employment of 100,000 graduates and the support offered to the ordinary Ghanaian during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    These include supply of free water and subsidy on electricity as well as the restoration of industry and the economy.

    “So we do not need the EC to rig the elections in our favour. NPP will win the election based on our sound track record,” he said.

    Mr Mac-Manu noted that all the excuses the NDC was making against the compilation of a new voter’s register was premised on the fact that it could not wrest power from the ruling NPP Government based on performance.

    He said even though the NPP would support the EC to compile a new voter’s register and election management system if the election management body wished to do so, the Party would still contest and win the December polls with or without a new voter’s register.

    “This is because the Ghanaian electorate have confidence in the ruling NPP government since President Akufo-Addo had shown leadership and sought the welfare of the ordinary Ghanaian over the period of his tenure,” Mr Mac-Manu stated.

    He recalled that since 1996 the EC had compiled a new voter’s register every eight years (that is 1996, 2004 and 2012) with the idea of improving the features of the electoral register to ensure the sanctity of the elections.

    He, therefore, posed these questions to the NDC: “Why is it that the NDC is against the compilation of a new voter’s register that promises enhanced features? What is it about the 2012 Register that the NDC holds it so sacred? What is it that the NDC holds so sacred that if the register is replaced, it will affect the party’s electoral fortunes?”

    Mr Mac-Manu said the NPP was not afraid to face the Ghanaian electorate in the December polls because the Akufo-Addo-led government had distinguished itself over the period and it was evident for everyone to see and make comparison with that of the NDC.

    Source: GNA

  • Atiwa East NPP in turmoil with threats of four disqualified aspirants going independent

    While the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) grapples with the uncertainty surrounding its parliamentary primaries ahead of the 2020 elections due to the coronavirus pandemic, four disqualified aspirants in the Atiwa East Constituency of the Eastern Region are beating war drum as they threaten to contest the December elections as independent candidates if they are not reinstated.

    The four, Kudjoe Amegah Kafui, Ernest Adade Wiredu, Dr. Frank Banning and Eric Ofori Agyarko, who picked nomination forms to contest the incumbent MP who is also the Deputy Minister of Finance, Abena Osei Asare, were all disqualified by the Vetting Committee of the party.

    Speaking in an interview with 3news.com one of the disgruntled delegates and supporters stated, “we the NPP delegates and avid supporters in Atiwa East appeal to the National Executive Committee and Council of Elders and Patrons to clear all the disqualified aspirants to contest in the upcoming parliamentary primaries to avoid defection and apathy and a possible emergence of independent candidate”.

    Another supporter who gave his name as Emmanuel Boateng pointed out that, “the allegations against our candidates by the Regional Vetting Committee are frivolous, malicious, baseless and false, therefore we are appealing to the party hierarchy to rescind that decision to disqualify them because we know it was a way of imposing a candidate on the good people of Atiwa East Constituency which will pave way for apathy and defection and a possible independent candidate.

    “The disqualified aspirants are known to be active members of the party and they keep supporting the party and constituents in so many ways”.

    When 3news.com contacted the Eastern Regional First Vice Chairman of the NPP, Alhaji Umar Bodinga, he explained that the issue is before the Appeals Committee of the party so the candidates must wait until the report is out.

    He explained that the report is not out because of the coronavirus which has led to the suspension of every political activity.

    Below is a release by the party listing disqualified persons in the Eastern Region:

    New Patriotic Party

    Eastern Regional Secretariat

    National Parliamentary Vetting Committee (NPVC)

    Fifteen (15) out of 79 Aspirants were not cleared at the Vetting

    Out of the 79 aspirants who filed their nominations in the Eastern Region, Fifteen (15) aspirants from nine (9) Constituencies were NOT recommended to contest for the parliamentary candidates positions in their respective constituencies. Detailed report and reasons for their disqualification will be sent to the National Headquarters for consideration and final approval.

    Please fine the details below:

    NAME AND CONSTITUENCY

    Barifi Opare Addo Akuapem South

    Dr. William Adjei Twumasi Akuapem North

    Lawyer Philip Addison Akuapem North

    Dr. Oppong Adabo Akim Swedru

    Edward Kwaku Aboagye Akim Oda

    Eric Ofori Agyarko Atiwa East

    Kafui Cudjoe Amega Atiwa East

    Dr. Frank Baning Atiwa East

    Adade Wiredu Atiwa East

    Dr. Samuel Owusu Akyem Atiwa West

    Moro Sakyiama Yakubu Fanteakwa North

    Freeman Ofori Agyarko Fanteakwa North

    Frank Mireku Ahemah Abirem

    Daniel Kwadwo Afrifa Abirem

    Gloria Ofori Boadu Abuakwa South

    Thank You

    ……Signed……..

    Jeff Konadu Addo

    (Regional Secretary)

    Source: 3 News

  • $1bn IMF loan: Government has been vindicated, Mahama doesn’t read – Buabeng Asamoah

    Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Yaw Buabeng Asamoah says the Akufo-Addo government has been vindicated by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) regarding the $1 billion loan facility the Bretton Woods institution recently doled out to the Government of Ghana.

    The National Democratic Congress (NDC) claims government massaged figures to secure the loan from the IMF.

    These claims were championed by the NDC and their flagbearer former President John Dramani Mahama in an attempt to besmirch President Akufo-Addo and make his government unpopular in the eyes of Ghanaians, according to the ruling party, but that was shot down by Country Director of the IMF, Dr. Albert Touna Mama over the weekend.

    Dr. Touna Mama, in an interview with Joy FM on Saturday, cleared the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta of tampering with the figures disclosing that ”when it comes to the data we received that we worked with, in this debate, there is nothing new that we did not know”.

    Contrary to the NDC claims which emanated from a fact-checking exercise by the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) that the government presented different data to the IMF, the IMF Boss expounded that the 7.5 per cent fiscal deficit in the IMF statement was generated by the institution itself and not the Government of Ghana, adding that what the NDC thinks is a discrepancy in the figures is actually a result of two different methodologies used in calculating deficit and international reserve.

    To him, the NDC grossly erred in its interpretation of the figures.

    “You need to go through the reports and understand what the figures that have been presented are…Our number includes these two elements (financial sector payments and energy sector payment) and we know why the Governor of the Bank of Ghana made the decision not to have these two elements in the fiscal deficits…When it comes to Gross International Reserve, we have our definition; definition that we think is the right one.”

    “But the Bank of Ghana also has a different understanding of what Gross International Reserve should account for. And the difference here is that Bank of Ghana accounts the Oil Fund, the Heritage Fund and the Stabilization Fund as part of Gross International Reserve and I think that point was clearly made at the beginning of the year by the Governor of the Bank of Ghana. That is the difference and that is the position that they have taken,” he added.

    Touching on the issue on Peace FM’s ‘Kokrokoo’, the NPP Communications Director held that the explanations given by the IMF Country Director should put to rest the political arguments about the IMF 1 billion-dollar loan facility since it has been established that the government did nothing wrong.

    According to him, former President John Mahama and the NDC have shot themselves in the foot.

    “He (Mahama) didn’t take time to read. They don’t listen when we always tell them they don’t read. It has been disclosed that Ghana is not the only country that benefited from the loan facility. If he had exercised a little restraint to know the world is transforming, he would not have made such a rash of it,” Yaw Buabeng Asamoah slammed former President Mahama.

    Source: Peace FM

  • This dirty politics of discrediting government’s interventions must stop! – Kabilla

    Acting General Secretary of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), James Kwabena Bomfeh Jnr., appears displeased with the penchant by some politicians to discredit efforts and policies of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to resolve the current Coronavirus pandemic.

    Kabila, as he is affectionately called, strongly held that such practice does won’t augur well for the growth of the nation.

    According to him, it is a dangerous political trend and so called on his colleague politicians to stop the ”dirty politics”.

    The CPP acting General Secretary was contributing to a panel discussion on ”Kokrokoo” on Peace FM’s on the COVID-19 scourge and matters arising.

    ”Equally dangerous and more serious was the attempt by some opposition elements to discredit everything government was doing. I was amazed…worse is or worse was and it continues till date the attempt that everything government was doing had to be discredited. I didn’t understand why but of course, I saw it was the usual NDC/NPP dirty politics that have associated our fourth Republican politics…it won’t augur well going forward”, Kabila stated.

    Source: Peace FM

  • Adansi-Fomena NPP commends government for reviving hospital project

    Members of the Adansi-Fomena Constituency of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has commended the government for resuming construction works on the government hospital project in the town.

    According to the party members, the hospital project, which was started by the former government was dear to the hearts of the people, and the decision by the government to revive and complete it was laudable.

    Addressing a press conference at Fomena in the Adansi North District, Mr. Akwasi Nti Asamoah, constituency chairman said the people in the area were very happy over the coming back of the contractor who was working on the project to the site to continue work.

    “We commend the President for his commitment to work for the good of the country by bringing the work on the project back again”, he stated.

    Mr Asamoah said everybody in the district was aware of the hullabaloo that surrounded the Fomena Hospital project, which was stalled under the previous administration for unknown reasons.

    He appealed to the contractor to ensure that the project was completed, this time around since it was a priority project to the people in the area.

    Source: GNA

  • NPP settles on Mac Manu to lead election 2020 campaign team

    General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu says the New Patriotic Party has selected Peter Mac Manu to lead its campaign as Campaign Manager for the December general election.

    He made this known in an interview on Accra-based Peace FM.

    He mentioned that a winning team is never changed so the NPP has decided to fall on Mac Manu who handed them victory in 2016 to lead their team which according to him, is very solid.

    John Boadu said the political party should have launched the campaign team on May 2 but that was not possible considering the regulations on COVID-19.

    He said the campaign team has already started working and they have an absolute idea of their campaign team as compared to the opposition NDC that does not have an idea of individuals who will make up their campaign team for elections 2020.

    “We are not changing the winning team; Mac Manu will lead our campaign team and when the full list is out, it is going to be solid,” he told Peace FM.

    He expressed shock at the fact that the NDC did not have a fair idea of the individuals who will make up their campaign team neither does the political party have an idea of who their running mate will be.

    Source: My News GH

  • Ill continue to trumpet the good of NPP as a truthful person Allotey Jacobs

    Embattled former Central Regional Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Bernard Allotey Jacobs insists he would continue to sing praises of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) once what they do is for the good of the country.

    He disclosed that he is committed to the ideals and ideologies of the NDC dismissing claims that he is in bed with the NPP as claimed by some leaders of his party.

    According to him, his stance on praising the current government when it does good things is tailored towards changing the narrative in the political discourse in the country.

    “How could I be in bed with the NPP, facts are facts, when something is good about the NPP I will say it, when it is wrong, I will talk against it. You see there is the need for us to change the kind of narrative or we have to change our political discourse, you see we need to grow our politics in this country”. He revealed on Accra-based Joy Fm monitored by MyNewsGh.com.

    Bernard Allotey Jacobs in February last years said since his party the NDC has barred him from representing them on political talk shows, he now speaks as a social commentator whose principle is the truth.

    Allotey Jacobs came under attack after MyNewsGh.com reported that he had commended president Akufo-Addo for procuring 307 ambulances for Ghana.

    “The interior of the state of the art ambulances recently commissioned and distributed by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo can give life back to a dying patient… [..] .. We all should face facts if you look at the inside and see the equipment and colour design it looks very attractive. If you are at the point of death, the colours in the ambulance can give you the vim to survive. The inside is great,” Allotey said.

    “All those ambulances that were brought into the country from the Kufuor to Mahama regimes must be added to the current fleet. If they are the need to retool them, they should so we carve a new ambulance system. It would be prudent for the government to supply them ambulances to the Regional and Teaching Hospitals,” he added.

    Source: My News GH

  • NPP Asuogyaman constituency chairman reportedly involved in motor accident

    The New Patriotic Party chairman of the Asuogyaman constituency in the Eastern region, Dr Akyea Darkwa, has been involved in a motor accident Monday evening.

    Dr. Darkwa was returning from Accra with other executive members of the party, theghanareport.com monitored a JoyNews report.

    But the politician was travelling alone in his vehicle when the accident occurred.

    He is reported to have run into a broken-down truck on the Asutuare road. The said truck had no reflectors or any warning signs for motorist plying the road.

    He is currently on admission at the Akosombo hospital awaiting referral to the Saint Joseph hospital in Koforidua.

    He is reported to have sustained multiple fractured injuries in the right leg and hand.

    Source: theghanareport.com

  • NPP to handpick parliamentary candidates – Sam Pyne explains

    The Ashanti Regional Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Samuel Pyne, says whether or not the ruling party will handpick Parliamentary candidates lies in the hands of the National Executive Committee.

    Tension seems to be brewing in the ruling party after reports emerged that due to COVID-19 the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party may handpick Parliamentary candidates for the 2020 elections.

    This was reportedly hinted by the General Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu.

    Reacting to this on Peace FM morning show ‘Kokrokoo’, Sam Pyne said the “decision to select candidates lies in the hands of NEC and they have the power to do so, but no decision has been made in that regard; even if that will happen, they will get all stakeholders involved”.

    Source: Peace FM