The Electoral Commission has condemned the violence that characterized the by-election held in the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency with a call on political parties to take steps to disband their vigilante groups. Speaking after an Inter-Party Advisory Committee [IPAC] meeting held on Wednesday, Head of Communication at the Electoral Commission, Mr. Eric Dzakpasu said the attacks at the residence of …
The Coalition of Domestic Election Observers says that it stands by its report on last Thursday’s Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election. The report, which was released by the Coalition on January 31, the day of the polls, was rubbished by the Electoral Commission (EC)’s Chairperson Jean Mensa, who said that the by-election went on peacefully despite violence breaking out near a …
The Vice President, Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has set up a Commission of Inquiry to probe circumstances leading to the violence that occurred during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election last Thursday. The decision was taken with the consent of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo who is out of the country. There was a shooting incident near a La Bawaleshie polling …
A former National Security Minister under the Jerry John Rawlings’s administration, Kofi Totobi Quakyi, has described as “traitors” persons who have counselled President Nana Akufo-Addo on the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election violence. The former minister has also condemned the incidents of violence which occurred at the residence of the NDC candidate, Delali Kwasi Brempong, and the La Bawleshie …
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is yet to come to terms with their loss in the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election as the party has called on the Electoral Commission (EC) to annul the results of the exercise. The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate, Lydia Seyram Alhassan, won the by-election held on January 31, 2019. The process was …
The violence unleashed by some security operatives during last week’s by-election in the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency continues to draw strong criticisms from various shades of the society, with three prominent Ghanaians joining the fray in calling for action to punish the perpetrators. Outspoken former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Most Rev. Emmanuel Martey, who has been …
The Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has said it will not recognise the Member of Parliament-elect, Lydia Seyram Alhassan, claiming the by-election was a “sham”. A by-election held last Thursday following the death of Emmanuel Kwabena Kyeremateng Agyarko saw his widow Lydia Seyram Alhassan elected as his successor. But the NDC in the …
Former President John Mahama has hit out at the security apparatus and government as a whole for the downward turn of events during the just ended Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency by-election in which widow of Emmanuel Kyerematen Agyarko won by a 68 percent margin. Mr. Mahama charged the President to call his appointees to order cautioning the latter that the …
The Dynamic Youth Movement of Ghana (DYMOG) has condemned what it says is ‘needlees bloodshed’ in the series of violent attack that marred the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election on Thursday. In a statement signed by the movement’s Director of Communications, Daniel Blaise Annang Jnr, the acts of barbarism displayed is a clear indication that the election is in ‘bad light …
Assaulted Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Sam George wants the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to be truthful in disseminating information on the circumstances that led to the disturbances during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election. Government officials including National Security Minister and Deputy Information Minister have said that Sam George was at the center of the incident that triggered …
