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Ensure justice before you call for peace - NDC The Upper East Regional National Democratic Congress (NDC) has urged stakeholders demanding peace in the country to first ensure that justice prevails in the just-ended Presidential and Parliamentary elections. The Party described as “ridiculous” for anybody to call for peace without justice, and emphasized that the rank and file of the NDC in the Region stood by the decision of their Flagbearer, Mr John Dramani Mahama, and the National Executi...

Assin North MP-elect renounced Canadian citizenship in 2019 – NDC The MP-elect for Assin North, James Gyakye Quayson, renounced his Canadian citizenship on 19 December 2019, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has said. The party said the MP-elect is “a full citizen of Ghana who owes no allegiance whatsoever to any other country. He is a Ghanaian in law and in fact and qualifies to be a Member of Parliament according to the laws of Ghana.” This follows claims by the governing New Patri...

NPP to contest 7 Parliamentary seats in Court LISTEN Peter Mac Manu The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has listed a number of parliamentary seats it intends to fight in court. Chairman of the NPP 2020 general elections campaign, Peter Mac Manu who briefed the media on December 23, 2020, said the seats were: Savelugu, Pusiga, Assin North, Bawku Central, Nkwanta North, Cape Coast North and Asuogyaman. Contrary to the street protests by the NDC over disputed elections results, Mr Manu said t...

705 The Campaign Manager of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2020 elections, Mr Peter Mac Manu, has urged the flag bearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr John Dramani Mahama, to be truthful to his supporters that he lost the 2020 presidential election. He said after the collation and declaration of results, the only remedy available to the NDC, if they disagreed with the collated and declared results, was to go to a court of competent jurisdiction to seek redress. “We call o...

705 Hundreds of supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Upper East Region have called on well-meaning Ghanaians, institutions and international bodies to bring pressure to bear on the Electoral Commission (EC) to ensure justice by re-collating the results of the December 7 presidential polls. That, they noted, would ensure that the EC paid attention to the democratic tenets of the country and also ensure that “proper collation and declaration of the 2020 election results w...

NPP to contest some 7 constituencies results in court - Mac-Manu Chairman for the 2020 general elections campaign, Peter Mac-Manu disclosed this addressing the Press a while ago. According to the NPP, they have detected some foul play in the election process which went on in some seven constituencies. They include the Pusiga, Cape Coast North, Asuogyaman, Bawku Central, Nkwanta North, Savelugu and Assin North constituencies. The Chairman reiterated that, unlike the NDC, they will contest the re...

U/E: Ensure justice before you call for peace - NDC LISTEN 1 The Upper East Regional National Democratic Congress has urged stakeholders demanding peace in the country to first ensure that justice prevails in the just-ended Presidential and Parliamentary elections. The Party described as “ridiculous” for anybody to call for peace without justice, and emphasized that the rank and file of the NDC in the Region stood by the decision of their Flag bearer, Mr John Dramani Mahama, and the Nati...

+ The New Patriotic Party (NPP) says it has assembled a team of lawyers to challenge the results of seven parliamentary constituencies in the just ended 2020 general elections. The seats are Assin North, Cape Coast North, Pusiga, Bawku Central, Savelugu, Asuogyaman and Nkwanta North. Go to court Speaking at a press conference in Accra at the party’s campaign office on Wednesday, December 23, 2020, the party’s Campaign Manager, Mr Peter Mac Manu said even though the party was dissatisfied wi...

Assin North NDC MP-elect holds dual citizenship – NPP alleges LISTEN DEC 23, 2020 The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) is alleging that the newly elected NDC Member of Parliament for the Assin North Constituency, James Gyakye Quayson holds citizenship for both Ghana and Canada. The party has since written to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs asking for an inquiry into the current citizenship status of the MP-elect. In the letter cited by Citi News, Solicitors for the New Patriotic Party, M...

Election 2020: Judges can be fallible just as EC – Ayariga to NPP The Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga has said no amount of pressure from the New Patriotic Party(NPP) will stampede the NDC into making hasty decisions to go to court over the outcome of the 2020 polls being contested. Ayariga contends that if the NDC should drag the EC to court over the flawed elections, it would do so strategically, notwithstanding the fact that it has some 19 days to make concrete steps...