"Come for your stone" - Ghanaians tell Akufo-Addo, Bawumia

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PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE) 9 years ago

NKWASEAFO BI NTI GHANA IS SICK!!! THE CEDI HAS ALREADY DIVED DEEP DOWN!!!!!!!------ WE NEED NANA'S WISDOM. HIS LEADERSHIP WITH BAWUMIA IS EXCELLENT. NANA IS OUR POLITICAL MESSIAH!! WE WILL PATIENTLY WAIT FOR HIM TO COME A ...
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NKWASEAFO BI NTI GHANA IS SICK!!! THE CEDI HAS ALREADY DIVED DEEP DOWN!!!!!!!------ WE NEED NANA'S WISDOM. HIS LEADERSHIP WITH BAWUMIA IS EXCELLENT. NANA IS OUR POLITICAL MESSIAH!! WE WILL PATIENTLY WAIT FOR HIM TO COME AND LIBERATE US FROM OUR ECONOMIC OPPRESSORS. WE CAN'T PUT OUR TRUST IN THESE YOUNG NDC THIEVES (WITH NO WORK RECORD) WHO WANT TO LIVE LIKE KINGS OVERNIGHT, OWNING JETS, BIG MANSIONS, BANKS, ROLLS ROYCE, DATING MODELS ETC. AT THE EXPENSE OF THE POOR. BEING A PRESIDENT REQUIRES THE USE OF BRAIN NOT BRAWN. A PRESIDENT DOES NOT "THROW" PICK AXE!!! WHO CAN DO THE JOB BETTER THAN NANA, AT THIS TIME IN OUR HISTORY, WHERE GREEDY CORRUPT , SHARP TEETH ROTTEN PLANK NDC SMALL BOYS, PARADING AS POLITICIANS, HAVE PLUNDERED OUR RESOURCES TO THE BONE, THAT OUR OIL ECONOMY INHERITED FROM THE GREAT KUFFOUR HAS HAD NO IMPACT ON THE LIVES OF THE ORDINARY CITIZENS OF OUR COUNTRY???? LONG LIVE GHANA!! LONG LIVE NANA ADDO. MORE GREASE TO YOUR ELBOWS!! EVERY THIEF IN GHANA, TODAY, IS SCARED OF BOLD AND MIGHTY NANA ADDO. NANA IS CLEAN !! CLEAN TO THE BONE!!!
kill me 9 years ago

If Nana win our brothers and sisters will get trouble getting American visa . Because of drug trafficking to the state.

If Nana win our brothers and sisters will get trouble getting American visa . Because of drug trafficking to the state.
PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE) 9 years ago

NKWASEAFO BI NTI GHANA IS SICK!!! THE CEDI HAS ALREADY DIVED DEEP DOWN!!!!!!!------ WE NEED NANA'S WISDOM. HIS LEADERSHIP WITH BAWUMIA IS EXCELLENT. NANA IS OUR POLITICAL MESSIAH!! WE WILL PATIENTLY WAIT FOR HIM TO COME A ...
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NKWASEAFO BI NTI GHANA IS SICK!!! THE CEDI HAS ALREADY DIVED DEEP DOWN!!!!!!!------ WE NEED NANA'S WISDOM. HIS LEADERSHIP WITH BAWUMIA IS EXCELLENT. NANA IS OUR POLITICAL MESSIAH!! WE WILL PATIENTLY WAIT FOR HIM TO COME AND LIBERATE US FROM OUR ECONOMIC OPPRESSORS. WE CAN'T PUT OUR TRUST IN THESE YOUNG NDC THIEVES (WITH NO WORK RECORD) WHO WANT TO LIVE LIKE KINGS OVERNIGHT, OWNING JETS, BIG MANSIONS, BANKS, ROLLS ROYCE, DATING MODELS ETC. AT THE EXPENSE OF THE POOR. BEING A PRESIDENT REQUIRES THE USE OF BRAIN NOT BRAWN. A PRESIDENT DOES NOT "THROW" PICK AXE!!! WHO CAN DO THE JOB BETTER THAN NANA, AT THIS TIME IN OUR HISTORY, WHERE GREEDY CORRUPT , SHARP TEETH ROTTEN PLANK NDC SMALL BOYS, PARADING AS POLITICIANS, HAVE PLUNDERED OUR RESOURCES TO THE BONE, THAT OUR OIL ECONOMY INHERITED FROM THE GREAT KUFFOUR HAS HAD NO IMPACT ON THE LIVES OF THE ORDINARY CITIZENS OF OUR COUNTRY???? LONG LIVE GHANA!! LONG LIVE NANA ADDO. MORE GREASE TO YOUR ELBOWS!! EVERY THIEF IN GHANA, TODAY, IS SCARED OF BOLD AND MIGHTY NANA ADDO. NANA IS CLEAN !! CLEAN TO THE BONE!!!
INTERESTING 9 years ago

JOKERS OF JOKERS ARE NPP MEMBERS. THIS OLD WAR LORD CAN NEVER WIN POWER.

JOKERS OF JOKERS ARE NPP MEMBERS. THIS OLD WAR LORD CAN NEVER WIN POWER.
Whatever 9 years ago

With NPP and Akufo Addo around, expect more comedies like this. What was the value of the cedi under Kufour? These concert party people

With NPP and Akufo Addo around, expect more comedies like this. What was the value of the cedi under Kufour? These concert party people
SAMO JEWELLERY 9 years ago

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SGT ANAI FIADZOE 9 years ago

Why should Mahama leave his own country on Christmas day and go to Dubai and spent such a memorable occasion in someones country, do you know the rational behind such a move? Kwasea like you, you do not think otherwise you wo ...
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Why should Mahama leave his own country on Christmas day and go to Dubai and spent such a memorable occasion in someones country, do you know the rational behind such a move? Kwasea like you, you do not think otherwise you would have know it just like that. Animal like you.

Dramani Mahama preaching corruption
has robbed the nation of their billions of dollars to build a 350
bedroom hotel in Dubai, Kwaseato, you
know this but you do not want to say
it because you are such a hopeless material in our country.

When stupud Mahama claiming our country is facing financial and economical challenges, NDC English,
why should he ddand his NDC crooks
goes ahead to buy 30 V8 4 x 4 Land Cruisers each costing $130 Thousand American dollars and distributed to the chiefs when all roads are rotten,
when no electricity in our country are working, TOR such a democratic institution is not working, no water,
Teachers, Doctors, workers in our country, cannot be paid of their salaries? All businesses are collapsing, unemployment is unprecedented high, Parents cannot pay their children school fees up to such a level that a girl school child at
Agona Sweduro Polly has to commit suicide because her parents cannot pay her school fees, Aooo, is this not very sad fellow civilized Ghanaian People?

It is only those who has no right frame of mind can support senseless
Dramani Mahama and his NDC so-called
politicians and their incompetent administration. Ghana is now a hopeless State. Animal like you.

Who is Adelaquaye that NDC Senior
Security Officer in charge Kotoka Int.
Airport who was arrested at the American JF Kennedy Airport with 23 thousand tons of cocaine? Was it not
Gbevlo Lartey the NDC Security Capo
who flew to America to claimed diplomatic immunity to release that
cocaine bastard, what have you got say about him, look here you are such a bush cat, please fuck off if you have
no brains to think about how our country can be rescued from these NDC
crooks. Why should Elvis Afriyie Ankrah can go to the Brazil and spent
million of dollars to refurbished a
mansion belonging to a Brazil national
at the expense of Ghana Government,
and when returned home senseless and corrupt Mahama can promote him, are NDC so-called politicians very serious
at all? Kwasea like you, better fuck off. Go and fuck your mother.
NAME101 9 years ago

Sgt you really made my day.The NDC -BLACK STARS' supporters were the cause for the denial of Canadian Visas for the Black Queens supporters .

Sgt you really made my day.The NDC -BLACK STARS' supporters were the cause for the denial of Canadian Visas for the Black Queens supporters .
Seth Owusu 9 years ago

Even without the Brazil saga, the Canadians were not going to give you any visa. If you ask people, they will tell you that getting Canadian visa is not an easy task. It's far easier to get an American visa than Canadian.
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Even without the Brazil saga, the Canadians were not going to give you any visa. If you ask people, they will tell you that getting Canadian visa is not an easy task. It's far easier to get an American visa than Canadian.

They know the city of Toronto alone where the Black Queens are going to play has Ghanaian population of about 60,000 and that they don't need you to come from Africa to cheer them on. They already have enough well fed, loud mouth and disciplined Ghanaians here to do that job.
Seth Owusu 9 years ago

Kuffuor, as our President, left Ghana on our independence day. As President, the independence day of your country and Christmas day, which is more important?

Kuffuor, as our President, left Ghana on our independence day. As President, the independence day of your country and Christmas day, which is more important?
AHMED YACOB 9 years ago

Why do you always compare and say Kuffour did this and Kuffour did that. Kuffour's time is past. the NDC said they were here to do better. They are now worse than K4.

Why do you always compare and say Kuffour did this and Kuffour did that. Kuffour's time is past. the NDC said they were here to do better. They are now worse than K4.
ATSU, HO 9 years ago

GHANAIANS HAVE A CHOICE TO MAKE NOW! WHAT IS ALL THESE? WE NEED HELP AS A NATION NOW, IF THE NPP HAS THE IDEA LET IT FLOW THEY DO NOT NEED TO BE IN POWER BEFORE THAT

GHANAIANS HAVE A CHOICE TO MAKE NOW! WHAT IS ALL THESE? WE NEED HELP AS A NATION NOW, IF THE NPP HAS THE IDEA LET IT FLOW THEY DO NOT NEED TO BE IN POWER BEFORE THAT
Baka 9 years ago

We don't need America visa but to Ghana like America,home sweet home-fool

We don't need America visa but to Ghana like America,home sweet home-fool
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE 9 years ago

Instead we shold elect people like Martin Amidu. It was under Nana and Kuffour's watch that Woyome and his band of thieves signed all these contracts but yet no provision was made to prevent loss of funds by the state in the ...
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Instead we shold elect people like Martin Amidu. It was under Nana and Kuffour's watch that Woyome and his band of thieves signed all these contracts but yet no provision was made to prevent loss of funds by the state in the contract.Martin Amidu all the way and lets stamp out corruption finally.
Kitty 9 years ago

It's time people stop treating politicians as saviors. There's never any truth found in them.

It's time people stop treating politicians as saviors. There's never any truth found in them.
Plain Talk 9 years ago

Payment had nothing to do with Kuffuor gov't. Atta Mills even on 2 occasions instructed that the money should not be paid but still the greedy bastards went ahead and paid it.
Here is my suggestion, ministers of state shoul ...
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Payment had nothing to do with Kuffuor gov't. Atta Mills even on 2 occasions instructed that the money should not be paid but still the greedy bastards went ahead and paid it.
Here is my suggestion, ministers of state should not be parlimentarians concurrently. The president should be made to appoint half of the ministers from his party,(non parlimentarians) a quarter from opposition and the other quarter from non aligned groups like Martin Amidu. I luv Martin!
PUSSY RIOT - east legon 9 years ago

These Npp women can carry one full truck load of stones each on their heads cos the two pair they are now hailing can never take over the Flagstaff house in 2016. Believe me to be, Yours Sincerely, Pussy Riot-east legon !

These Npp women can carry one full truck load of stones each on their heads cos the two pair they are now hailing can never take over the Flagstaff house in 2016. Believe me to be, Yours Sincerely, Pussy Riot-east legon !
Kojo Addae, Dansoman, Accra 9 years ago

Then go and start killing yourselves because as for Akufo Addo, he will never be a president before he dies

Then go and start killing yourselves because as for Akufo Addo, he will never be a president before he dies
YAA 9 years ago

YOU WILL KILL YOURSELF WHEN BECOMES PRESIDENT OF GANA SOON, KWASIA YOU WILL SEE IT WILL YOUR CORCRO EYES. ABOA FUNUAN BASTDARD.

YOU WILL KILL YOURSELF WHEN BECOMES PRESIDENT OF GANA SOON, KWASIA YOU WILL SEE IT WILL YOUR CORCRO EYES. ABOA FUNUAN BASTDARD.
kill me 9 years ago

What can nana give to gjana ? This block head weed smoker , the weed has blocked his head. He will only bring more drugs in ghana by ship.

What can nana give to gjana ? This block head weed smoker , the weed has blocked his head. He will only bring more drugs in ghana by ship.
CORNEY 9 years ago

Akuffo Addo,you have already lost the election,no amount of crap from you will make you president of Ghana,you are not a presidential material.
Anybody who will tell Ghanaians he will continue with where Kufour the most corr ...
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Akuffo Addo,you have already lost the election,no amount of crap from you will make you president of Ghana,you are not a presidential material.
Anybody who will tell Ghanaians he will continue with where Kufour the most corrupt president ever ruled Ghana must be on drugs and no wonder that trash is coming from Akuffo Addo.
Since he can't get it that Ghanaians voted NPP out because of the corruption that Kuffour brought to Ghana they will teach him another lesson which will make him and Bawumia the most serial losers of the world.
Joe 9 years ago

Someeople write without knowing what he is writing about. What is presidential material? It presidential material what we are experiencing under Mahama?

Someeople write without knowing what he is writing about. What is presidential material? It presidential material what we are experiencing under Mahama?
Kwansado 9 years ago

How can a person accused to have murdered someone in impunity be allowed to be president? Akufo-Addo is said to be using someone's certificates and name and Ghanaians still call for his presidency?

How can a person accused to have murdered someone in impunity be allowed to be president? Akufo-Addo is said to be using someone's certificates and name and Ghanaians still call for his presidency?
All shall pass 9 years ago

At this point it is only a FOOL who will support Mahama. Either that or you are profiting from all the corruption that is going on in this country. Even a deaf bat can comprehend the kind of mess this current government has ...
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At this point it is only a FOOL who will support Mahama. Either that or you are profiting from all the corruption that is going on in this country. Even a deaf bat can comprehend the kind of mess this current government has plunged this country into. Shame on you. In fact at this point, any other govt will need to actually work hard at making this country worse. Yes I mean that!!! In other words, this gov't has made an excellent job of making this country a horrible place to live. Meanwhile all those small small school boys are going round in big cars and insulting people left right centre: building mansions and petrol stations!!!
Majesty 9 years ago

No it will be only a fool who will call on NPP.

No it will be only a fool who will call on NPP.
NAME101 9 years ago

Who smokes wee more than your founder JJ?

Who smokes wee more than your founder JJ?
YAA 9 years ago

NANA ADDO HAS EVERYTHING FOR GHANAIANS BUT FOOLS LIKE YOU CAN'T SEE IT.NANA IS THE NEXTPRESIDENT OF GHANA BECAUSE NO THIEVES CAN STEAL FROM HIM AGAIN SO GO AND BURN THE SEA. KWASIA.

NANA ADDO HAS EVERYTHING FOR GHANAIANS BUT FOOLS LIKE YOU CAN'T SEE IT.NANA IS THE NEXTPRESIDENT OF GHANA BECAUSE NO THIEVES CAN STEAL FROM HIM AGAIN SO GO AND BURN THE SEA. KWASIA.
Efo Kossi Korve 9 years ago

Which Ghanaians did what is reported in this publication regarding what persons are saying about Baqumia and Akuffo Addo? These guys are essentially empty craps and come 2016 in the unlikely event that our delegates will vote ...
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Which Ghanaians did what is reported in this publication regarding what persons are saying about Baqumia and Akuffo Addo? These guys are essentially empty craps and come 2016 in the unlikely event that our delegates will vote for them at our orimRies, they will lose again. Please think Alan and be Alan
odikro 9 years ago

Through out Nana,s speech there was nothing better proposed, except we will , we will, we will ,this type of mouth mouth will do Ghana no better ,come out with something concrete,

Through out Nana,s speech there was nothing better proposed, except we will , we will, we will ,this type of mouth mouth will do Ghana no better ,come out with something concrete,
Lord Mansfield-London 9 years ago

It is an unequivocal fact how this Danquah-Busia clan planned to destabilised Dr Kwame Nkrumah and destroy his heritage.
If the atomic energy had NOT been sold to the Americans AFTER they took bribe to overthrow him, would ...
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It is an unequivocal fact how this Danquah-Busia clan planned to destabilised Dr Kwame Nkrumah and destroy his heritage.
If the atomic energy had NOT been sold to the Americans AFTER they took bribe to overthrow him, would we be crying wolf today? Imaging how people can be so blind and empty. They fed their kids with the booty from the spoil after Nkrumah; today these kids are here to continue their father’s legacy. Since their birth they don’t know, feel or understand when people cry of having nothing or suffering.

Their silly self esteemed and endemic mental slavery, which is continually demonstrated by their sons and daughters, is what is still holding this country abay.
When thinkers are trying to fix problems, all you can see these sons of anarchist doing is manufacturing how to destroy. Fortunately for them, God allowed them to taste power for eight years of favourable world economic conditions; after being in opposition for long. What did they use their power for?

They couldn’t add even one mega watt of energy to the country’s power generation in their 8 years ruling. Today they are behaving like an ostrich pretending all is fine. How on earth can they end up in a hair dressing salon for a loan? These are the kind of people we have in the country Ghana. Sheer incompetency, majority of them attended school and finished with no school certificates and cannot even remember which school they attended. Everything they know about economics is buying and selling. Creativity has eluded them. They only dream.

All we saw in their eight years in office was day light robbery of properties and owning them at all cost. They did it with no shame, penetrated into state reserve lands and forcefully paid peanut for them.
Siphoning from state account and redenominated the currency with impunity. They portrayed glare demonstration of arrogant and abuse of power. It is unbelievable how their numerous presidential initiatives, ended up in “MATREKO WO” island.

NB: the sale of Ghana Airways and its properties abroad, Ghana Telecom, the oil Rig and Ashanti Gold Fields,….These are the enemies, demons and very evil who came to kill steal and destroy. Kuffour did not construct any road in Accra yet he managed to change and rename what his predecessors have done to create the impression that he is working.

From their birth they were thought to backbite, destroy, kill and make shameless utterances, bully, join occult and make use of cannabis.
If you are discern citizen, I will entreat you sit up and think, get knowledge and don’t sell your conscience to these reckless generation who don’t care about Ghana than to seek their self interest. Prof. Mills tried to heal and rejuvenate this nation. He was not spared with the most insult ever known in history. Prof was truthful to his words, that, he will not victimise anyone but would be a president for all Ghanaians. He believed in building Ghana afresh after their spoil but they won’t allow him.

This is what these guys stand and live for “If it’s not them then it’s nobody” What a callous and insensitive generation these are?
Wise up Ghanaians else your generation will suffer more than you are going through now. Begin to think and be creative. Government will only create favourable environment but it is up you to take advantage by your creations. No one can better your life than you. Think of what you can do today; for tomorrow may never be yours.
ROYAL SIKAMAN 9 years ago

Ghanaians thanks MILLS/MAHAMA NDC for their BETTER GHANA AGENDA with the school boys ministers. Now is time they take their better ghana and give us our BITTER GHANA to NANA/BAWUMIA as even market women are crying for. We hav ...
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Ghanaians thanks MILLS/MAHAMA NDC for their BETTER GHANA AGENDA with the school boys ministers. Now is time they take their better ghana and give us our BITTER GHANA to NANA/BAWUMIA as even market women are crying for. We have tasted Better Agenda and now we need the NPP bitter agenda, period.
jOEy lOndOn 9 years ago

Tweaaaaa....

Tweaaaaa....
SGT ANAI FIADZOE 9 years ago

Dr. Bawumiah and Nana Akuffo Addo said
Dramani Mahama and his NDC so-called politicians are not fit to govern our nation, they are corrupt, incompetent,
thieves and brigands, fellow country men and women what are we seeing ...
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Dr. Bawumiah and Nana Akuffo Addo said
Dramani Mahama and his NDC so-called politicians are not fit to govern our nation, they are corrupt, incompetent,
thieves and brigands, fellow country men and women what are we seeing today?

Imagine da country which economical stability has been confused, under Mahama NDC administration and we cannot even get money to buy Sanitary Pads for our mothers and girls unless we go to the World Bank to beg for $156 million American dollar loan,
yet Mahama can get money to buy 30 V8 4x4 Land Cruiser Cars each costing $30 Thousand American dollars and give out
to the chiefs in our country as gifts.

Meanwhile electricity, water, every essential commodities are lost, Teachers cannot be paid, Doctors cannot be paid, other workers cannot be paid, unemployment is unprecedented
high and every businesses in the country are all broken down, roads in
our country are rotten, fellow Ghanaian People we all have to wake up
and kick out this NDC incompetent fools out of power, they are unfit to govern.
Concerned citizen 9 years ago

I wonder many stones are left for nana Addo after 2008 and 2012. More stone would have to be brought in for hm again after 2014. The chick of it. If Nana Addo is all that you dream of everyday, then your nights would be prolo ...
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I wonder many stones are left for nana Addo after 2008 and 2012. More stone would have to be brought in for hm again after 2014. The chick of it. If Nana Addo is all that you dream of everyday, then your nights would be prolonged for more dreams while the rest of the country is up and doing. keep on waiting and dreaming of your "messiah"
Victor 9 years ago

Let's vote massively for them and also protect the ballot for the will try stealing again.

Let's vote massively for them and also protect the ballot for the will try stealing again.
kodjo 9 years ago

ha ha ha ha. ONLY reported by the "office of Nana Akuffo Addo"!!!

ha ha ha ha. ONLY reported by the "office of Nana Akuffo Addo"!!!
MOI 9 years ago

I GUESS THEY PAID THE POOR WOMAN TO CARRY THIS HUGE STORE ON HER HEAD. ANOTHER NASTY TRICK OF AKUFFO ADDICT AND THE NPP

I GUESS THEY PAID THE POOR WOMAN TO CARRY THIS HUGE STORE ON HER HEAD. ANOTHER NASTY TRICK OF AKUFFO ADDICT AND THE NPP
TEE 9 years ago

NANA /BAWUMIA PERFECT MATCH PERIOD

NANA /BAWUMIA PERFECT MATCH PERIOD
TEE 9 years ago

NPP WE NEED YOU SO STOP YOUR KINDERGARTEN WARS AND UNITE PERIOD

NPP WE NEED YOU SO STOP YOUR KINDERGARTEN WARS AND UNITE PERIOD
ZoRRo 9 years ago

The people voted for Mahama to continue the Better Ghana agenda proposed by the Asumdwehehe; but Mahama has been a complete disappointment !

The people voted for Mahama to continue the Better Ghana agenda proposed by the Asumdwehehe; but Mahama has been a complete disappointment !
its me 9 years ago

nest time he wont buy elepant he wll buy ghana to sitt on it, i pray for ghana and i feel pity for them too, because up to now they havent know or see what is causing troble in their presidencial world,any president who comes ...
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nest time he wont buy elepant he wll buy ghana to sitt on it, i pray for ghana and i feel pity for them too, because up to now they havent know or see what is causing troble in their presidencial world,any president who comes come with his looters,so its coruption u have to fight,
kofi anamo 9 years ago

this man's crazy ambition since 2008 for the presidency was not to help the Ghanaian electorate but just to find a way to recoup huge sums of money realized from the sale of his late father's properties and foolishly investe ...
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this man's crazy ambition since 2008 for the presidency was not to help the Ghanaian electorate but just to find a way to recoup huge sums of money realized from the sale of his late father's properties and foolishly invested in his crazy idea and lost terribly. I know for sure that his third attempt at the presidency will finally push him into his grave if he fails again. he is a losing gambler. what a pity?
P.K 9 years ago

Please try as hard as u can to watch and monitor Hawei technology company of china carefully not to collaborate with NDC and EC to change the figures.Demand that all figures on the statement of pool sheet be verified,also dem ...
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Please try as hard as u can to watch and monitor Hawei technology company of china carefully not to collaborate with NDC and EC to change the figures.Demand that all figures on the statement of pool sheet be verified,also demand for four days to resolve all results by constituency EC rip and parties of various to confirm the results. This is how NANA ADDO would win the election 2016. I have been a presiding Officer twice so i know what i say.
Robert 9 years ago

It seems to me only Ghanaians living in Ghana feel the global economic crisis affecting many countries, especially the developing world. We we lack in Ghana is understanding the situation and finding solution. This should com ...
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It seems to me only Ghanaians living in Ghana feel the global economic crisis affecting many countries, especially the developing world. We we lack in Ghana is understanding the situation and finding solution. This should come from all including the opposition. For Ghana is for all and not for any political party. We all sink together if the ship is left to wreck.
Sopi 9 years ago

Please the toothless dwarf can't do fucko. He is just as incompetent as JDM. Ghana is doomed we have and incompetent fat fool, and a geriatric toothless , arrogant man ... None of which can do anything for Ghana. We need a ne ...
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Please the toothless dwarf can't do fucko. He is just as incompetent as JDM. Ghana is doomed we have and incompetent fat fool, and a geriatric toothless , arrogant man ... None of which can do anything for Ghana. We need a new breed of selfless leaders.
Sopi 9 years ago

Source of of NanaAddo????? Is this a joke or what?

Source of of NanaAddo????? Is this a joke or what?
Konongo girl 9 years ago

Of course all these market women are all NPP supporters. It will make no difference at all. NPP will still win in Ashanti and parts of the ER but lose in other regions. The voting pattern of Ghanaians will not change.

Of course all these market women are all NPP supporters. It will make no difference at all. NPP will still win in Ashanti and parts of the ER but lose in other regions. The voting pattern of Ghanaians will not change.
Abeeku Mensah 9 years ago

These are the very traders with respect for the laws of a nation they cannot get off streets designed for vehicles and will not obey city officials by moving off Ghana’s streets. These are the people who would sell fake pro ...
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These are the very traders with respect for the laws of a nation they cannot get off streets designed for vehicles and will not obey city officials by moving off Ghana’s streets. These are the people who would sell fake products and swear up and down its genuine. If these are the people to now decide the fate of our nation then God save our souls. Anyone who thinks the NPP and or NDC give a darn about indigenous Ga people is as delusional as the next person at arm’s length. Ghana is for the taking and picking and it matters not who is in power; we are being sold to foreign interests one stone at a time something these mongers will not understand.
DDKT 9 years ago

NPP ND NDC ARE ONLY INTERESTED IN THEIR STOMACHS. They only throw leftovers at ghanaians. kufour threw leftovers at us after satisfying his hunger

NPP ND NDC ARE ONLY INTERESTED IN THEIR STOMACHS. They only throw leftovers at ghanaians. kufour threw leftovers at us after satisfying his hunger
TT 9 years ago

Atuguba's Supreme Court had every opportunity to come to the rescue of Ghanaians' but they woefully compromised their integrity.

To those judges who spoke the truth I say "May the Good Lord bless you bountifully".

Atuguba's Supreme Court had every opportunity to come to the rescue of Ghanaians' but they woefully compromised their integrity.

To those judges who spoke the truth I say "May the Good Lord bless you bountifully".
DDKT 9 years ago

They vote base on their stomsch. since they are hungry they think npp is their savior. corruption wuld even be worse under npp. but offcourse they are going to cover up

They vote base on their stomsch. since they are hungry they think npp is their savior. corruption wuld even be worse under npp. but offcourse they are going to cover up
NAME101 9 years ago

Oh you are happy with Mahama's CORRUPTION LEVEL !!

Oh you are happy with Mahama's CORRUPTION LEVEL !!
Ugly Akufo Addo 9 years ago

His conditions is deteriorating

His conditions is deteriorating
NTIKUMA ANANSE 9 years ago

CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY AND WRITE, BECAUSE YOU ARE SOWING AND YOU JUST MIGHT REAP IT. YOUR WISH FOR SOMEONE'S DEMISE MIGHT TURN OUT TO BE YOUR OWN OR THAT OF A DEAR ONE OF YOURS. BE CAREFUL WITH THIS TALK ABOUT SOMEONE ELSE'S DE ...
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CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY AND WRITE, BECAUSE YOU ARE SOWING AND YOU JUST MIGHT REAP IT. YOUR WISH FOR SOMEONE'S DEMISE MIGHT TURN OUT TO BE YOUR OWN OR THAT OF A DEAR ONE OF YOURS. BE CAREFUL WITH THIS TALK ABOUT SOMEONE ELSE'S DEATH. BE WISE AND STOP, BECAUSE IT HAS GONE ON, ON THIS FORUM FOR TOO LONG. BE WISE AND STOP.
Obaa 9 years ago

NANA ADDO WILL NOT DIE. HE WILL FULFILL ALL THE DAYS THAT GOD HAS GIVEN HIM ON EARTH. HE WILL BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF GHANA. HE WILL LIVE TO SEE HIS GRAND CHILDREN AND GREAT GRAND CHILDREN. HE WILL BE IN SUPER GOOD HEALTH AN ...
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NANA ADDO WILL NOT DIE. HE WILL FULFILL ALL THE DAYS THAT GOD HAS GIVEN HIM ON EARTH. HE WILL BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF GHANA. HE WILL LIVE TO SEE HIS GRAND CHILDREN AND GREAT GRAND CHILDREN. HE WILL BE IN SUPER GOOD HEALTH AND HE INCREASE IN STRENGTH AND WISDOM IN THE YEARS AHEAD OF HIM.
princewilly@ymail.com 9 years ago

COME FOR YOU STONES AND THROW IT TO THE MPS AND LET THEM SAY TWIA,TWIA"

COME FOR YOU STONES AND THROW IT TO THE MPS AND LET THEM SAY TWIA,TWIA"
Neither NDC Nor NPP 9 years ago

Ghana will never progress with either NPP or NDC in power! NPP is trying so hard to re-invent itself, thinking that we have forgotten their infamous in-your-face looting. No, we will never forget Edward Begyina Sekyi-Hughs' n ...
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Ghana will never progress with either NPP or NDC in power! NPP is trying so hard to re-invent itself, thinking that we have forgotten their infamous in-your-face looting. No, we will never forget Edward Begyina Sekyi-Hughs' no-pillow-case-left-untouched looting! We will never forget Ghana-at-Fifty free-for-all looting! We will never forget Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey's this-house-is-mine looting! After NDC's looting term is over, there will be nothing owned by the state left in Ghana if NPP is returned to power! 8-years away from state money has made NPP very hungry, just as NDC has squandered all the oil money and whatever else waw in the national kitty. Ghanaians cannot trust their future and state assets with EITHER NPP or NDC. They are two wings of the same vulture, two sides of the same valueless coin, the devil and his identical twin brother. No, their value is the same. There is absolutely no difference between NDC and NPP and their greed, lack of vision and accomplishment!

It is time to return CPP to power so that CPP will continue the good works of Nkrumah: building industries/ creating jobs, providing good hospitals, schools and roads, affordable housing and opportunity for all. Work and happiness for a beautiful Ghana!
ZoRRo 9 years ago

Yes the people want change from these two bandit infested parties NDC and its twin brother NPP. But the third party CPP, cannot just get its act together ! Very frustrating

Yes the people want change from these two bandit infested parties NDC and its twin brother NPP. But the third party CPP, cannot just get its act together ! Very frustrating
OWEN.NEW YORK. 9 years ago

This is a man appointed by God to come and deliver his country men from sickness(health insurance)poverty,and wipe out the economic hardship.He is incorruptible man who will put the numerious natural resources into good uses. ...
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This is a man appointed by God to come and deliver his country men from sickness(health insurance)poverty,and wipe out the economic hardship.He is incorruptible man who will put the numerious natural resources into good uses.
There will be no need of poor students committing suicide because education will be free.All children will receive qualitative education and will be fed during school time.More jobs will be created because Nana will turn the country into West Africa Industial Hub .Only finished products from our raw materials would be exported.
bashings 9 years ago

HEY THIS ARE YOUR VIEWS! TALK ABOUT WHAT NPP HAS DONE FOR THE NATION AND STOP THIS PERSONALITY CULT WORSHIP!!!!!!

HEY THIS ARE YOUR VIEWS! TALK ABOUT WHAT NPP HAS DONE FOR THE NATION AND STOP THIS PERSONALITY CULT WORSHIP!!!!!!
OWEN.NEW YORK. 9 years ago

Not a single independent candidate can win elections in Ghana without a strong political party.Our problem in Ghana is to search for a good leader with vision ,big dream,incorruptible person.The best guy at the moment is Nana ...
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Not a single independent candidate can win elections in Ghana without a strong political party.Our problem in Ghana is to search for a good leader with vision ,big dream,incorruptible person.The best guy at the moment is Nana Addo and his second Dr.Bawumia.period.
MOI 9 years ago

AKUFFO ADDICT CAN SAY ALL HE LIKES, HE WILL STILL NOT BE A PRESIDENT.

AKUFFO ADDICT CAN SAY ALL HE LIKES, HE WILL STILL NOT BE A PRESIDENT.
Jefferson Micson 9 years ago

Nana we belyf u en ur membaz can du it en du it beta... No Nana no vote

Nana we belyf u en ur membaz can du it en du it beta... No Nana no vote
HONORABLE 9 years ago

YOU ARE A FOOL YOU THIS BUSH WOMAN WITH A STONE ON YOUR HEAD BECAUSE YOU DID NOT GO TO SCHOOL YOU ARE ALL FOOL SAY SOME GHANIANS OK NOT ALL GHANIANS FOOL YOU WILL STILL REMAIN FOOL FOREVER

YOU ARE A FOOL YOU THIS BUSH WOMAN WITH A STONE ON YOUR HEAD BECAUSE YOU DID NOT GO TO SCHOOL YOU ARE ALL FOOL SAY SOME GHANIANS OK NOT ALL GHANIANS FOOL YOU WILL STILL REMAIN FOOL FOREVER
Kwesi 9 years ago

Nana relishes in this self-delusion all the time. Why photograph die-hard NPPyists as market women supporting you when you are just campaigning for party primaries? Go on believing in your own dreams until you receive the tru ...
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Nana relishes in this self-delusion all the time. Why photograph die-hard NPPyists as market women supporting you when you are just campaigning for party primaries? Go on believing in your own dreams until you receive the true shock a third time. By this attitude you are already distancing yourself from the same neutral voters who always make the difference.
Papa Yaw. 9 years ago

So

So
BOY KOFI 9 years ago

We are talking about general elections here.Even if Nana wins and NDC takes the legislative again with high margin then I don't see how Mahama will concede to Nana Addo.From the records,NDC has always beaten Nana Addo in Pres ...
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We are talking about general elections here.Even if Nana wins and NDC takes the legislative again with high margin then I don't see how Mahama will concede to Nana Addo.From the records,NDC has always beaten Nana Addo in Presidential and Legislative at the same time.I am afraid Nana Addo can not beat NDC on 2 fronts no matter what. That is why NPP should look for a new face.Thank you.
Boubacar Tuggar 9 years ago

wow. This is very significant event. Carrying stones on heads? Interesting and must be followed through.

wow. This is very significant event. Carrying stones on heads? Interesting and must be followed through.
YAA 9 years ago

NANA YOU'ER THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN SAVE GHANA AND NOT ALAN.

NANA YOU'ER THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN SAVE GHANA AND NOT ALAN.
Whatever 9 years ago

What was the value of cedi under the erstwhile corrupt Kufour administration Government of which a Akuffo and Bawumia were an integral part? It was worse

What was the value of cedi under the erstwhile corrupt Kufour administration Government of which a Akuffo and Bawumia were an integral part? It was worse
FUFUO DADESEN 9 years ago

THE SOURCE OF THE STORY IS NOT FROM GHANAIANS--- ITS A CAMPAIGN FROM NPP

THE SOURCE OF THE STORY IS NOT FROM GHANAIANS--- ITS A CAMPAIGN FROM NPP
Captain Canada 9 years ago

to improve the economy. Unless you dolts believe creating more drug barons is improving the economy. Ghana needs a third way of independents to fix the economy. Akuffo-Addo & co are just going to take what is left of the coun ...
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to improve the economy. Unless you dolts believe creating more drug barons is improving the economy. Ghana needs a third way of independents to fix the economy. Akuffo-Addo & co are just going to take what is left of the country and sell it and leave. They have no solutions because Ghana's problem is within. You cannot solve dishonesty and theft by putting even more dishonest and thieves in charge. These market women should keep these stones because it will be needed, as projectiles, when the NPP ever get into office. Illiterate market women who are partly to be blamed for the economic woes should put a sock in it. Wasn't these same market women who jacked up prices after the cedi redenomination? Weren't these same people who refuse to take pesewas for their goods because the new currency? I remember a market woman claiming the basket of tomatoes that should cost pesewas is now 3 new cedis(which is 30000 in old currency). They should take a look in the mirror and see the toothless wench stare them back and say you are part of the problem.
Captain Canada 9 years ago

Doing the same thing and expecting different results. That is what these jokers want us to believe that picking the twice defeated candidate is going to fix the problem. It won't. Much their candidate, they believe it is thei ...
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Doing the same thing and expecting different results. That is what these jokers want us to believe that picking the twice defeated candidate is going to fix the problem. It won't. Much their candidate, they believe it is their destiny to rule. The question is what comes after he's elected. The answer is resounding NOTHING!!. The situation will be 'meet the new boss same as the old one if not worse". Anybody that has a brain knows NPP and NDC are the two cheeks of them same ass.
ASH 9 years ago

The sponsored prostitutes at it again. She has money to bleach her natural skin and have no worry about that stupid politics.

The sponsored prostitutes at it again. She has money to bleach her natural skin and have no worry about that stupid politics.
ALEENO 9 years ago

Nana first thing appoint Martin Amidu as Attorney General to root out all NDC corruption people appoint mature and experience people not school boys.Fiifi Kwatey Minster for Agric what a world.Lord have mercy on Ghana,

Nana first thing appoint Martin Amidu as Attorney General to root out all NDC corruption people appoint mature and experience people not school boys.Fiifi Kwatey Minster for Agric what a world.Lord have mercy on Ghana,
paapaasi- USA 9 years ago

" Ampa,afotuo nsakyera nipa agyese nsohwe."

It's good you've admitted your mistake. Please, don't repeat it.

" Ampa,afotuo nsakyera nipa agyese nsohwe."

It's good you've admitted your mistake. Please, don't repeat it.
Kwabena Nyamekye 9 years ago

The NPPs own swedru declaration and the coming disaster in 2016

There is a ghost haunting the New Patriotic Party and it is the ghost of hero-worship and the probability of a very long spell in the hellfire of opposition. ...
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The NPPs own swedru declaration and the coming disaster in 2016

There is a ghost haunting the New Patriotic Party and it is the ghost of hero-worship and the probability of a very long spell in the hellfire of opposition. That ghost comes from within the NPP itself as it stands right now and my hope is that come the elections for our flag bearer the rank and file will banish that ghost for good. The ordinary party members: the teachers, the post office workers, the taxi drivers, the Susu collectors etc should vote to open up a new era in the Danquah-Busia tradition lest the tradition recede into unimportance. Why do I say so? My answer is that ever since the loss of the court case challenging the victory of His Excellency President Mahama, there has been a Swedru Declaration of sorts in the NPP. Right from the moment the then General-Secretary Kwadwo Owusu-Afriyie announced that Honourable Akufo Addo was going to be the next flag bearer, some NPP national executives, regional chairmen, MPs and other leading members have come out to declare their support for Honourable Akufo-Addo as the next flag bearer for the 2016 election.

Given their stature in the party, this is similar to what His Excellency President Rawlings did in Swedru in 1999 when he stated his preferred successor was then Vice-President John Mills. This statement by President Rawlings shut off any meaningful debate in the NDC about who was to succeed him as flag bearer and it led to the creation of the Reform Party by NDC. The Reform Party activists had immense influence at the grassroots and their breakaway made victory for the NPP in 2000 easier. Although the Reform Party managed to get only 1% of the vote at the 2000 election, its impact was felt at the base of the party since it was made up of those responsible for mobilizing electoral support at the grassroots. J.A. Kufuor thus went into an election at the head of a united NPP while Mills led a divided NDC weakened on the ground. Times have changed however and going into 2016 President Mahama is at the head of a united NDC. NPP should take note.

When JB Danquah, George “Pa” Grant, Robert Blay and others decided to form the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), the parent organization of the Danquah-Busia tradition, they put in place a political party based on a number of ideas that included political freedom, open markets, the importance of traditional rulers, etc. Theirs was a tradition that was based on values, principles and beliefs and not on individuals. Made up of the finest minds in the Gold Coast at the time, it is therefore not surprising that Danquah himself, although the most popular member based on his role as a lawyer, was not the leader of the UGCC – instead Pa Grant was the Chairman, Blay was the 1st vice-Chairman and Danquah was “just” the 2nd vice-Chairman.

Seventy years later the UGCC continues to exist in the form of its direct descendant the NPP and I argue that this stems from the groundwork of the forefathers. I am on solid ground when I state that the Danquah-Busia tradition is one of the four most durable political traditions in Africa - in good company with the African National Congress, the Mauritius Labour Party and the Botswana Democratic Party. All other political parties formed to win independence in Africa have vanished, or they have been reduced to irrelevance, or they continue to survive and govern just because they have used state power to harass and intimidate their opponents into submission. The Danquah-Busia tradition has been outlawed, overthrown, fragmented, defeated, and yet it is still here fighting to build a prosperous Ghana.

One of the things that was really important in the tradition in its early years was the absence of hero-worship. Somewhere in the newspapers of 1969-1972 there is a statement by Kofi Abrefa Busia attacking party executives who had arranged for supporters to sing songs about him when as Prime Minister, he made a trip to the Brong-Ahafo region. His point was that if you do this, when he was dead and gone, the tradition will collapse with him. His call was for the party to be sustained around the political beliefs of Danquah, himself and others and not around their personalities. In my books, that re-affirmation of our principles enabled us survive the coup of January 13th 1972, the division in 1979, and the hounding of our members after the coup of 31st December 1981 even though strangely, we were not in power then.

The NPP has been slipping away from this tradition. In the past year leading party members have made everything about “Nana” and no one else: “when Nana is president” “Nana this and Nana that” etc. It is as if we the rank and file of the party are so stupid, so ignorant, so lacking in common sense that without the leading members’ guidance we can’t hail a taxi from Kejetia to Baba Yara sports stadium in Kumasi. I don’t want to accuse anyone of cowardice but the critical thinking displayed on television and radio programmes seems to vanish in the wake of the Nana Addo band wagon as all leading party members seem to have fallen in line, living in fear of the machine that has been created. Right now one tactic that is employed is that they are appearing on TV, radio etc telling the whole world that the election of the flag bearer is a done deal. This is a sly way of neutralizing any opposition by suggesting your vote is wasted on any other contestant. They have the money to pay the serial callers to ring the radio stations to push their agenda and this adds to the false impression being created the Nana Addo is the best to lead us to victory in 2016.

I have been looking at electoral results in Ghana since 2008 and my view is that if the Conservative party of the UK can get rid of their second most successful Prime Minister, Maggie Thatcher when she was in office in 1990 because there was the fear that the party was going to lose the 1992 election, then the NPP needs to take a good look at itself. The fact of the matter is that the NPP needs a new flag bearer. Since 2008 we have lost the 4 vital swing regions. This to me is not a small error that can be corrected easily in 2016. Rather it is a major turn of events. It was those swing regions that helped us to victory in 2000 and 2004 and hence they are critical battle grounds. However, what is even worse is our performance in our 2 strongholds since 2008. The facts are dismal. In 2000 NPP won 74.80% of the vote in the Ashanti region. The run-off was even better as we secured 80.50%. In 2004 we won 76.97% of the vote. Figures in the Eastern region were also healthy. In 2000 first round, the party won 52.94%. In the run off this shot up to 56.90%. In 2004 we enjoyed a stunning victory when we bagged 60.30%.

Then along came Nana Addo and our strongholds started to crumble. In the first round in Ashanti in 2008 Nana fell to 72.53% of the vote. In the 2008 run off he crept up to 74.39%. In 2012 Nana collapsed to 70.86% of the vote. The Eastern region looks equally sad. In 2008 first round Nana Addo had 57.14% of the vote. In the runoff he inched up to a mere 57.47% and in 2012 he dropped to 56.91%. It is this sad performance in the Eastern region that should tell anyone with a critical mind that Nana just does not appeal to floating voters! What is even more tragic is that JAK converted the Central and Western regions into NPP strongholds. From 49.57% in Central in 2000 we went to 58.80% in 2004. In the Western region we went from in 49.13% 2000 to 57.70% in 2004. Under JAK we were getting more in Central and Western regions than we are getting in Eastern under Nana Addo! If party elites, most of them well-educated bankers, lawyers, accountants, economists, political scientists etc. do not see this and continue to force Nana Addo down our throats then perhaps we deserve our sad plight in opposition

In effect those who are jumping up and down calling for Nana Addo for a 3rd effort (in reality a 4th effort) should note that our problem is not in just the swing regions – he has created a problem for us at home as well! If you think your girlfriend’s headache is a calamity then what of your mother who has had a stroke and is on her deathbed I ask? Thus for those shouting No Nana No Vote the message from the Ghanaian voter is that “If Nana then no Vote”.

This problem is not going to vanish in 2016. It will continue to be there until we address the matter by replacing the flag bearer. The Labour party of the UK lost 4 elections between 1979 and 1992 because their party leaders appealed only to its core support. It was the rise of Tony Blair that led to the creation of a new image and this enabled Labour to win 3 elections in a row including victories in Margaret Thatcher’s constituency of Finchley. This tells me the importance of a leader who goes beyond the core supporters. After 3 NPP losses in the swing regions, after losing in the core areas, and after a slow bleeding of our parliamentary seats, it is unbelievable that elites want Nana Addo for another attempt.

A number of other matters need tackling: First there is the view that Nana Addo is not too old as Ronald Reagan, and Nelson Mandela were in their 70s when they won their first elections as presidents. First let me dispose of the Mandela issue: Nelson Mandela should not be used as an example by anyone anywhere given the unique situation in South Africa at the time But turning to Reagan (and you can add Mugabe, Dos Santos and Mutharika of Zimbabwe, Angola and Malawi respectively) the opposition in the US was so weak at the time, so disconnected from the aspirations of the people that Reagan’s victory, especially in 1984, was perhaps the easiest in US electoral history. His opponents, first Jimmy Carter in 1980 and then Walter Mondale in 1984 were not in tune with America as it underwent major socio-economic changes. It was thus not surprising that Reagan beat Carter a sitting president in 1980 and in 1984 he thrashed his opponent Mondale by winning 49 the 50 states. This was because there was a new breed of voter, the so-called Reagan Democrats, who turned their backs on their political roots and voted for him.

On their part Mugabe and Dos Santos face disorganized and intimidated opposition parties that could not win an election anywhere given the baggage that they carry as being tied to an old oppressive colonial order. In the recent election in Malawi, the incumbent President Joyce Banda was at the head of a minority party that had no seats in parliament. Not surprisingly when the recent general election was held she came in third with around 20%.

Unlike the case in Zimbabwe, Angola and Malawi, the NPP faces an extremely tough opponent in the form of NDC that should never be under-estimated in its ability to win power. Even if we discount the 1992 election which for me no one was going to win except Jerry Rawlings, the NDC has won in 1996, 2008 2nd round and 2012. It can therefore easily win in 2016. With its skill at propaganda if Nana Addo is chosen as flag bearer, the NDC will remind Ghanaians that he will be 82, yes I repeat 82, and I repeat again 82!! and still be in office as President. The Presidency is not a ceremonial position. Neither can it be equated to chieftaincy. There is huge pressure on the president (just look at how President Mahama has aged since he took over in 2012). The President is not a traditional leader who does not face a robust and aggressive opposition. Age is important in choosing a President. NDC is a party that is skilled in the black magic of propaganda and is waiting patiently for us to field Nana Addo. If we do so, they will open fire with this statement and we will have nowhere to turn in his defence.

The second issue is that of popularity: all you hear is “Nana Addo is popular” ”Nana has been marketed” “he is the one that the voters know” and so on. As a result, we should ignore our staggering losses and present him for another attempt. This tells me then that as of now the NPP flag bearer position is for life. Once I am elected I will hold on to the position forever based on the NPP’s new rule: You can’t get rid of me as I have been marketed. However, it is obvious marketing is not the key to victory – Dr. Edward Mahama is the most marketed politician in the history of Ghana having contested 4 elections with the benefit of the internet, private radio stations, text messaging etc. but he is yet to score any major victory at the polls.

The third issue is that Nana has struggled so much for the tradition that the party needs to keep him going until he wins power for us. Since when has this become a major factor to decide our flag bearer? If suffering for the Danquah-Busia tradition is the basis for someone being flag bearer then we should go to the house of Mr. JH Mensah and install him as our candidate without the need for a contest. He served the tradition as finance minister from 1969 to 1972. He was jailed in 1972 after Kutu Acheampong's coup, having been dragged out of his hotel room in Kumasi where he was hiding. I remember a picture of him on the front page of the Daily Graphic or Ghanaian Times in his pyjamas being escorted by the soldiers to detention where he remained for almost 2 years. After his release he began a campaign calling for the peaceful transfer of power from the armed forces to civilians and again was sentenced to jail for 3 years for this. If my memory is correct, during the height of the anti-Union Government campaign he went into prison again for his pro-democracy activism. In 1982 he was forced into exile with the security agents of the PNDC chasing him and remained in exile for a long time. However, when he stood for party flag bearer in the 1990s no one said he should be chosen based on his struggles and suffering.

Given that the party elite want to return Nana Addo for another attempt. I am sure as delegates you know see why they conspired to prevent a national conference from being held in the normal manner in April 2014. Once you bring us the delegates together we realize their power and we use it to change the old order. Face-to-face meetings allow delegates to exchange ideas and information, share facts and ideas. Meeting each other allows us to understand ourselves better by engaging in meaningful discussions instead of listening to some constituency Chairman somewhere telling us what we should think. This is why they tried to keep us in our regions and get us to vote there. They sought to divide and rule. All that they wanted was for us to nod our heads in agreement with their pre-conceived agendas. We were expected to agree to their own preferences for party executives as a part of a grand plan to produce an outcome the elites wanted. Knowledge is power and oppressive ruling classes everywhere have tried to prevent ordinary people from sharing knowledge and gaining power.

With 2 regions, (and even if we exclude the damage caused there under Nana Addo since 2008) the NPP is a powerful electoral force. Increase the vote in these regions back to the 2000 results, throw in at least 2 swing regions and NPP can be in power for the next 30 years. Keep electing someone who can’t win in the swing regions and whose vote in the 2 strongholds declines and we will be in opposition for 30 years. It is for this reason that I am appealing to all delegates, the special forces of the Danquah-Busia tradition, to smash those that are reducing us to a rubber-stamping body because they seek to use clever means to close down the possibility of choosing a new flag bearer.

When was the last time anyone commented on what Dr. Kofi Apraku will do to tackle the trade economy given he was onetime spokesperson for finance and also minister for trade and industry, and has a wealth of knowledge in this regard? What of Alan Kyerematen a man listed by the influential Time Magazine in 1994 as one of the 100 global future leaders of the millennium? Bill Gates was on this list as well and just look at what he has done with Microsoft! When was the last time a high ranking party executive mentioned him in the same breath as the party’s hope to win power in 2016? Then there is Joe Ghartey with an excellent track record of running the Attorney-General’s department. A native of Winneba he too is a new face that can signal a break with the past, appeal to our diehard voters and also to the voters in the swing regions.

There is nothing to suggest victory is certain in 2016 under a new flag bearer but a loss is more manageable and we can learn from this like we did in 1996. If, however, we lose in 2016 (and I am certain this will happen under Nana Addo) then an entire generation of potential party flag bearers will have been shut out of the process from 2008 until 2020 (assuming after his defeat in 2016 Nana Addo does not run again). We will have had twelve years of marking time in the name of someone who by 2016 will have failed to cross the 50% threshold 4 times. Twelve years of a flag bearer who presides over the collapse of votes in the Ashanti region and Eastern Region will destroy morale in the party. This is when accusations will fly about our own Swedru Declaration. Will Dr Apraku still be hanging around waiting to lead? I wonder if Alan Kyeremateng and Joe Ghartey will even have the desire or energy to launch their campaigns one more time. My fear is that the anger will be such that a break up will be a real probability. Electoral history tells us we should earn from the NDC’s folly in 2000. The rank and file should prevent this at all cost by beginning reform from below – the most important sector of the party

If we the delegates do not smash the old order then I have news for all members of the NPP – Johnson Asiedu-Nketia of the NDC will smash the old order for us with consequences we can’t live with. We underestimate him at our peril he is very skilful and has handed out 2 beatings to us already. He is probably praying as I write for a third shot at the NPP led by Nana Addo as this will make him the happiest man in Ghana.

April 12th of this year was the beginning of our own grassroots revolution when we began the destruction of the old order by sacking almost all of the old executives. We held in check those who have tried to manipulate the process of choosing a leader. We the people signalled a changing of the guard and that the party must dance to the tune of its grassroots members for this is our party! Our statement was that don’t you dare treat us like idiots and tell us who will be the Chairman, General Secretary etc. We are the ones who are on the ground. We eat in the chop bars, we cut our hair in the local barber shop, we own the hairdressing salons, we have stalls in the markets and in all these settings we hear what ordinary people are saying and we know that disaster is staring us in the face if we persist with Nana Addo in 2016. This is not to diminish his immense contributions to our struggle but it is time for us to move on with a new vanguard, chosen freely by us as ordinary members and presented to Ghanaians at the next general election.

I end with a note of caution. I hear on the radio stations pro-Nana supporters telling all those who care to listen that a political party in Ghana always gets 2 terms. Thus the NDCs second term is up and this anyone can lead the NPP in 2016 and still secure victory. Hence despite the failings of the past, the NPP, led by Nana Addo, will win the 2016 elections. This is the height of arrogance. To suggest to voters that they are programmed to vote a certain way just because you think this is the emerging practice is evidence that some party members have lost grips with reality. Voters do not like to be told how they will vote. Voters form their own opinions. Moreover, the fact that NPP has achieved so much in the past is irrelevant. An election is about the future and not the past. So many political parties have arrogantly assumed that the voters owe them a living and this has been to their peril. The Liberal Party of Britain is a good example. In the 19th century it was in the forefront of social reform. The modern day welfare state in Britain owes its roots to the Liberal Party and the working classes got their right to vote because of the tireless efforts of the Liberals. Furthermore, their legendary leader, Lloyd George led the UK through the First World War and saved the country from defeat by his example. Notwithstanding this by the 1920s the Liberals were in decline and they have never won power since, having to content themselves with being junior partners in the 1970s Labour government and the current Conservative government. Another example is Lech Walesa in Poland; He was the electrician who took control of worker agitation in Poland in 1982 which culminated in the collapse of the entire Soviet system. He was rewarded with one election victory in 1990 but was voted out of office in 1995. In 2000 he decided to try another attempt at the presidency and got exactly 1% of the vote – so much for the past as a determinant of how people vote for the future. The CPP vote in Ghana has been shrinking steadily from its glory days during the anti-colonial struggle and just after independence. If history and gratitude were factors surely the CPP should have much larger share of the vote for after all, you do not have to be pro-CPP to appreciate the contributions it has made to our country.

Delegates – we have an election to win! After you have read this, please print this off and circulate it among all members of the Danquah-Busia tradition. Also when the time comes for a new flag bearer, vote for change.

Kwabena Nyamekye
OWEN.NEW YORK. 9 years ago

Not a single independent candidate can win elections in Ghana without a strong political party.Our problem in Ghana is to search for a good leader with vision ,big dream,incorruptible person.The best guy at the moment is Nana ...
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Not a single independent candidate can win elections in Ghana without a strong political party.Our problem in Ghana is to search for a good leader with vision ,big dream,incorruptible person.The best guy at the moment is Nana Addo and his second Dr.Bawumia.period.

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