Former President John Mahama has asked the Electoral Commission (EC) to ensure that the 2020 general elections are not rigged. According to him, there were issues arising from the 2016 elections that needed to be addressed going into the 2020 polls. He said it was imperative that those concerns were addressed to ensure that whoever wins in 2020, it would …
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has asked the leadership of Parliament to cancel its new 450-seater parliamentary chamber project. According to him, the NPP is surprised a decision that has been taken in parliament by the leadership has received opposition by the same members of the house. Speaking on Okay FM’s ‘Ade Akye Abia’ programme, General Secretary of the party, …
Johnson Asiedu-Nketia, General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has reiterated that the election of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) will eliminate the problem of Winner-Takes-All politics in Ghana. Winner-Takes-All is an electoral system in which, a single political party can elect every office within a given district or jurisdiction. It is in contrast with proportional representation, …
The incumbent Volta Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Kwadwo Gyapong, has finally been moved to the newly created Oti Region where he originally hails from and has his vote. Mr. Gyapong became the party’s Volta Regional Chairman at a time that the newly Created Oti region and Volta Region were one. However, after the referendum in …
