Ghana Post Elections

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has ended his three-day visit to the Northern Region with a firm assurance that he will not be an armchair President. According to him, regional tours will feature prominently in his administration since he’s a grassroots politician. This in his estimation will ensure that he is in constant touch with Ghanaians who overwhelmingly gave him the mandate to govern. President Nana Addo’s remark followed the Dagbon Regent, Kampakuya Naa Abdulai Yakubu Andani’s complaint that some of his appointees’ attitude is undermining the role of chiefs in promoting good governance. To prove this, he left the Presidential Lodge at the Regional Coordinating Council, and lodged in a Hotel where he always stayed as the main opposition leader over the years. There, President Nana Addo was easily accessible to people who desired to meet him for discussions. His presence at the OIC spot in Tamale to dine and wine with the masses who attended Vice President, Alhaji, Dr. Mah

In the lead up to the 2016 Ghana elections, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in its 2016 manifesto promised to “oversee the direct election of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) within 24 months of election into office, to coincide with the next District Assembly elections in 2019.” However, Deputy Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Mr O.B Amoah, while speaking to the media yesterday, stated emphatically that, the election of MMDCEs will certainly not take place in 2018. He alluded that for the MMDCE elections to be possible,” there is a need for a referendum to be held or Article 55 (3) of the Constitution amended to make the position a partisan one”. “It is not 2018; I don’t know why this thing keeps coming up and indeed if we want to go the full hog and make the election partisan, it means we should even do a referendum to amend article 55 (3) so that we can get MMDCEs elected on multi-party basis. So we are working towards t

The John Dramani Mahama presidency schemed for Kofi Portuphy and Kofi Adams to become National Chairman and National Organizer respectively of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) – a factor the Kwesi Botchwey Committee claims contributed to the disastrous defeat of the party. Immediately that was done the party’s machinery collapsed and never recovered, according to the Professor Kwesi Botchwey Committee that investigated why the National Democratic Congress (NDC) embarrassingly lost the December 7, 2016 general elections. Sycophantic Executives The 65-page Executive Summary of the 455-page report says with the election of the two leading officers, the party’s hierarchy became sycophantic and did the bidding of the presidency instead of concentrating on how the party would remain in office. “Kofi Adams and Kofi Portuphy were beneficiaries of the presidency machinations during the Kumasi congress to elect them,” the report revealed on Page 27. It states on page 2

President Akufo-Addo during a 2-day tour to the Upper East Region assured citizens of Ghana the resources and wealth of the nation will not find their way into his pockets, but will be used for the rapid development of the country. We are going to ensure that all the money that is mobilised by government is spent in dealing with the issues that concern our people, and that they do not find their way into my pocket or the pocket of my ministers. We are not going to allow that to happen again.” In addressing the concerns of the Chiefs of the Upper East Region on the deplorable nature of their roads, President Akufo-Addo noted that “everywhere I go, the first thing people ask me is about their roads. “So this unprecedented infrastructural development trumpeted by my opponent in the last election could not have been about roads, it must have been something else. You, yourself, have pointed out how very poor your network is. We are going to work on it,” he assured. On t