The Ho High Court presided over by Justice George Buadi has granted an interim injunction restraining the Electoral Commission from gazetting John Peter Amewu as MP for Hohoe Constituency. This was after an ex parte application was argued in court by Tsatsu Tsikata for the applicants who hail from the towns who were prevented from voting in the parliamentary […]
General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has hit back at critics who have questioned why his children are not taking part in the street protests against the outcome of the 2020 Presidential election. Questions have been asked why NDC bigwigs are not involving their children in the street demonstrations but have incited […]
Tamale North MP, Alhassan Suhuyini has said the Electoral Commission’s announcement on the eve of the 7 December 2020 general elections that eligible voters in the newly-created Guan District could only take part in the presidential election in Hohoe and not the parliamentary election, since the creation of the Guan Constituency was still pending, amounted to […]
Member of Parliament for Odododiodoo constituency, Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuye, has revealed that there is total failure of law and order within the Ghana Police Service. The former Youth and Sports Minister said most of the officers who he claimed take instructions from politicians, exhibit high level of indiscipline within the service. Mr Vanderpuye has called for a […]
Vice Presidential candidate of the Progressive People’s Party, Kofi Asamoah Siaw has described the election of John Peter Amewu as illegal. Mr. Asamoah-Siaw argues that the Electoral Commission should have divided the Hohoe constituency into two following the creation of the Oti Region. He said the laws are clear on this hence the election of the Energy Minister as […]
Things turned confrontational at the Electoral Commission‘s Headquarters in Accra when some Minority members in parliament stormed the Electoral Commission‘s Headquarters to present a petition. A number of about 50 MPs who were clad in black attire were initially stopped at the Ridge roundabout but managed to cross the barricade while they were being pushed by the […]
Members of opposition parties, including the National Democratic Congress (NDC), have warned security personnel protecting demonstrators to desist from attacking them. According to them, the security personnel, mostly members of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) vigilantes group, should not try to mar their peaceful demonstration by firing tea gas, rubber or life bullets and […]
Some concerned citizens in the Hohoe constituency of the Volta Region, have petitioned the Electoral Commission (EC) to declare the results of the constituency’s parliamentary elections of the December 7 polls in which Energy Minister John Peter Amewu was declared winner, invalid. The petitioners, Paul Dzamboe and Godfred Osei, are also calling on the EC to conduct […]
Lt. Col. Larry Gbevlo-Lartey, has shot down claims by Assin Central Member of Parliament of threatening the peace of Ghana. Kennedy Agyapong on his Net2 TV, told Colonel Gbevlo-Lartey to desist from any action that would undermine the peace of the country. He said he has a leaked audio recording of Gbevlo-Lartey, allegedly planning to disturb […]
The Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah, has congratulated the National Democratic Congress (NDC) following its keen competition with governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the just-ended presidential and parliamentary elections. According to him, the NDC took him by surprise with the “magical” performance put out in the election. Appearing on Peace FM’s Kokrokoo on Friday and contributing to […]