The Director of Elections of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, still stands by comments he made in a leaked audiotape bordering on the proposed new voters’ register. Afriyie Ankrah in the audiotape urged members of his party to reject the proposal by the Electoral Commission (EC) to compile a new voters’ register ahead of the 2020 polls. ...

A leaked audio interaction from a crucial meeting of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) party has revealed it intends to scuttle the compilation of a new voters’ register by occupying the head office of the Electoral Commission (EC) and bringing Accra to a standstill. The party’s Director of Elections, Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah, was captured in the audio encouraging members of ...

Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has described as a recipe for disaster any attempt to vote for former President John Mahama in the 2020 elections. He explained that, the former President was given the opportunity to build a structure but it collapsed and a new mason being the New Patriotic Party (NPP) led by Akufo-Addo was contracted by Ghanaians through ...

Those in favour say ‘Aye’…and those against say ‘No’ “The Ayes have it,” the unmistakable voice of the Speaker, Aaron Mike Oquaye, announced the expected outcome of MPs vote on the Electoral Commission’s demand for almost half a billion Cedis for a new voters’ register. With a 63 seat deficit in the House, the National Democratic Congress MPs probably accepted ...

The Director of Elections of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah, has reacted to a leaked tape attributed to him in which he is heard suggesting the party mounts pressure on the Electoral Commission (EC). According to him, he personally did the recording and sent it to party members who were at a strategic meeting. “This is not ...

Senior Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo’s attempt, to have a decision by Auditor General Daniel Domelevo to surcharge him and four others over $1 million paid to Kroll and Associates Limited set aside, is gathering momentum. Information reaching Daily Guide indicates that the Auditor General has been served with the Notice of Appeal filed by the Senior Minister and four others – ...

The two reports in 2015 and 2019 looked at the performance of the Mahama and Akufo-Addo administrations separately, concerning their promises. IMANI analysed the promises when the two parties were in their third year in office. While the NDC made 540 promises, the NPP’s promises were 510. IMANIFesto is a framework that assesses political parties’ manifestos using a coding system ...

The cushion would obviously be thorny for President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in his party’s very stronghold, the Ashanti region in the 2020 presidential elections, a MyNewsGh.com special report has shown. Though he has declared a “4 more for Nana” agenda, the President might not make the record figures that secured him a landslide victory in 2016, as his contender, ...

Action Patriots for Justice, (APJ) a group associated with the ruling NPP has described the former President John Mhamah as “a leader without conscience”, saying: “If indeed he had a conscience, he would run away whenever the issue of corruption is mentioned adding that, had it not been AG and Special Prosecutor’s laziness, Mr Mahama would have been quiet by ...

The apathy and low voter turnout in the just ended District level elections should be blamed on the Electoral Commission (EC), National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) and the Information Service Department (ISD). A social activist group calling itself Citizens for Change and Accountable Governance (CCAG) is pointing accusing fingers at the three state institutions for doing very little in ...