The Ashanti Regional Deputy Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress has described as “needless, purely partisan and hogwash,” the thirty percent government appointees sworn into the various Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies. Kwame Zu was livid speaking passionately about the kind of names put up as government appointees joining the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly as […]
The Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says his party is targeting 80% of votes in the Ashanti Region. Speaking on the first day of his three -day Rise and Build tour in the Region, the former Attorney General said, “My main target in the Ashanti Region is to
Members of the NDC’s Communications Team in the Ashanti region have benefited from a three-day capacity building training to sharpen their communication skills so as to better propagate the achievement of the government to the public. About 200 participants were Constituency Communicators and their Deputies, Public Relations Officers of the Tertiary Education Institutions Network, TEIN,
A Vice Chairperson of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) Betty Mould-Iddrisu has lamented what she describes as the skewed manner in which the Media in the Ashanti region reports the achievement of the NDC government. In her view, Ghana in the last seven years under the NDC administration, has seen an unprecedented achievement in
Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church Ghana, Most Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Asante, has called on the Electoral Commission (EC) to be transparent and consider the national interest in the way forward concerning the call for a new voters’ register.According to Rev. Prof. Asante an independent body must be set up by the EC to ensure
Four out of the 97 aspiring parliamentary candidates of the NDC in the Ashanti have been disqualified from contesting in the actual contest scheduled for November 7. They are Jerry John Appiah of Adansi Fomena who incidentally was the party’s Parliamentary candidate in 2012, Kwasi Dumaga of Sekyere Afram Plains, Jude Atuahene of Asante Akyem
Former Executive Director of the Danquah Institute and Member of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) Gabby Asare Otchere Darko has accused the Electoral Commission (EC) of deliberately dragging its feet over calls for a new voters register. The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the Progressive Peoples Party (PPP) have called for the compilation
The NDC yesterday began the vetting of its Parliamentary aspirants from 47 constituencies in the Ashanti region ahead of the November 7 nation-wide Presidential and Parliamentary elections. Aspirants from 27 out of the 47 Constituencies went through the process. The aspirants took turns to answer probing questions from members of the Vetting Committee which included
The National Democratic Congress has scheduled the vetting in the Parliamentary primaries in the Ashanti region for today and Wednesday at the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council in Kumasi. Ninety-seven members of the party who completed and filed their nomination documents in their quest to contest in the party’s November 7 nation-wide primaries are facing stiff contest.
Pressure group, Let My Vote Count Alliance (LMVCA) will be in court today Monday to set aside an injunction filed by the Police to restrain the group from embarking on a second demonstration to back calls for a new voters register ahead of the 2016 elections. According to the group, being law abiding it is
