Aggudey’s supporters ‘take back items he donated to CPP’

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Aggudey’s supporters ‘take back items he donated to CPP’

{sidebar id=10 align=right}Aggrieved supporters of George Opeisika Aggudey, one of those who contested for the presidential

ticket of the Conventions People's Party, have gone to the party's headquarters to take away a refrigerator and television set he donated to the Party sometime ago.

A source at the CPP Headquarters in Accra told the GNA that some people came there on Wednesday evening and took away the items and left the premises a few minutes before the GNA arrived.

One Mr Azure, a worker at the Headquarters, expressed surprise when asked about the incident and kept on asking how the GNA got to know.

He declined to confirm or deny but referred the GNA to Professor Nii Noi Douwuna, Former General Secretary of the Party, who was in his office at the time but he also passed the buck to Mr Aggudey.

When contacted, Mr Aggudey said some of his supporters, who felt aggrieved, might have done that since they saw his loss at the CPP congress as ingratitude.

He said he as a person did not approve of the action but since people were different and reacted differently he could understand their action.

"Even some of those who voted against me have started saying that the Party is dead without me and they are asking me not to leave it to die," Mr Aggudey said.

Source: Ghanazone, January 04 2008

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Kufuor Rendered Ghana A Home Of Cocaine, Sakawa and 419 - Koku Anyidoho

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Kufuor Rendered Ghana A Home Of Cocaine, Sakawa and 419 - Koku Anyidoho

Director of Communications at the Presidency, Koku Anyidoho, has slammed the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for playing on the emotions of Ghanaians by using infants in their campaign commercials and painting a false picture to the whole world that parents are suffering and finding it difficult to foot the education bills of their wards.

Mr Anyidoho said, prior to the 2000 General Elections, the NPP aired adverts that inaccurately portrayed to the electorate that the country was under “oppression and depression”.

{sidebar id=10 align=right}After the successful orchestration of this campaign, he said, Mr John Agyekum Kufuor won the elections but failed to alleviate the suffering of Ghanaians.

“At the end of the day, he left Ghana a home of cocaine, a home of “sakawa” (internet fraud), a home of 419. He started with zero tolerance, in the middle of the journey, he turned round and tells us that corruption started from Adam…he sets up an Office of Accountability in the Castle, and he has the audacity to tell you and I that the office was set up to call people who are found to be culpable and tell them that “hey! Do this and that…because they won’t come out to embarrass the party and the government. So did Kufuor make Ghana a happy home when Ghanaians were crying that they didn’t have money in their pockets?…what did he tell them...that it is only lazy people who don’t have money in their pockets...Tell me, did Kufour save Ghana from oppression and suppression?,” Mr. Anyidoho quizzed.

Speaking in an interview on Larterbiokorshie-based Radio Gold, he accused the NPP and its flabearer of deploying campaign methods similar to the one used by then Candidate Kufuor just to “hoodwink” Ghanaians.

Whiles scoffing at the campaign strategy as a “moribund” and “outdated” one which “has outlived its usefulness”, the Communications Director at the Presidency described Nana Addo’s campaign team as lacking creativity, and a bunch of people who have “run out of ideas” and “hit a dead end”.

“So suddenly Nana Akufo Addo, his team have into the studios, gone and packed this same children again and the children are singing and saying “oh Nana…free education…oh Nana, free education…Nana Akufo Addo", please put your house in order and come again. Your attempt to hoodwink and bamboozle Ghanaians with these infants and trying to get to the Castle through the back door will not work. Jake, Oboshie Sai and co should find another strategy. This moribund, outdated…strategy of yours has outlived its usefulness”, Koku Anyidoho posited.

Source: Chris Joe Quaicoe/Peacefmonline.com

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Can Nana Konadu Derail The NDC?

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Can Nana Konadu Derail The NDC?

Mrs Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings’ decision to lead the National Democratic Party (NDP) to the 2012 elections has once again revived the party’s threat to the ruling National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) calculations for the 2012 elections.

Rawlings’ loyalists and other dissatisfied members of the NDC who came together to form the NDP have been targeting the ruling party from the onset of the NDP’s formation.

So far, their biggest threat to the NDC has laid in the number of dissatisfied NDC parliamentary aspirants they have reportedly been able to garner.

{sidebar id=10 align=right}NDP members have, however, always seen the Rawlingses as their biggest asset for gaining national profile and attention.

Nana konadu has been touted as the main brain behind the party, but her husband, former President Jerry John Rawlings, has been more reticent about the NDP, even if the party’s core members say he is supportive of their cause.

The former presidential couple have through their spokesperson, Kofi Adams, insisted on their distinct political personalities.

Nana Konadu’s importance to the NDP has been seen recently in the party’s decision to keep postponing the deadline for those interested in their presidential slot, with the clear intention of waiting for Mrs Rawlings to make up her mind.

Now, according to the general secretary of the NDP, Dr Joseph Manboa-Rockson, in an interview with Joy FM yesterday, Mrs Rawlings would be contesting the party's flagbearership race at the party’s congress slated for the Kumasi Sports Stadium this Saturday.

Even though Dr Manboa-Rockson said two other persons were interested in the flagbearership slot of the NDP, it was his hope that the two will shelve their interest and allow Nana Konadu to be acclaimed as the consensus candidate, to avoid a contest.

“Now that she has shown an interest and a desire to contest, we believe that a consensus will be reached amongst the three so that Mrs Rawlings becomes the flag bearer and then we get a running mate," he stated.

Even though the NDP might be aiming for a Reform Party effect on the NDC because of the small margin between the country’s two major parties at the last general elections, that goal might not be easy this time around.

NDP’s strength is not known, but the general secretary disclosed in his interview with Joy FM that over 7,500 people are expected to attend the party’s Saturday congress.

Party members, including Nana Konadu herself, have clearly been doing some organisation behind the scenes as testified by some recordings at meetings, which were played on radio.

But the party’s ability to repeat what the Reform Party did to the NDC in 2000 may be hampered by the organisational ability of individuals in the party.

The other drawback for the NDP lies in their relative lateness on the scene and the difficulty of crafting messages beyond disappointments with the NDC.

Source: The Finder

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Ghana has a date with destiny on December 7 – Bawumia

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Ghana has a date with destiny on December 7 – Bawumia

{sidebar id=10 align=right}Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice-Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said, on the commencement of his Upper East Regional tour, that the people of Ghana have come to a crucial decision point and have a date with destiny come December 7 this year.

Dr. Bawumia was speaking at the Bolga Naba’s palace during a courtesy call on the Bolga Naba in Bolgatanga on Monday.

Speaking to the Chiefs and Elders of the Bolga municipality, and hundreds of party faithful gathered, Dr. Bawumia said “we have come to seek your blessings for our campaign. We are campaigning for the support of the people so that by the Grace of Allah, we would see the election of Nana Akufo-Addo as President in just about 8 weeks from now. In 8 weeks time, Ghana has a date with destiny; Bolga has a date with destiny, which would see Ghana moving forward and see an end to a government of lies and the election of a government of possibilities.

We have to meet the date of our destiny to ensure that we bring in a future of jobs for our youth and not a future of unemployment. We have to meet our date with destiny to ensure that we transform this nation and ensure that the Northern Development Fund is a real programme of economic development and not a programme of propaganda. We have a lot to do in education, health, agric, infrastructure etc. so this election really is an election about our future and our livelihoods,” he added.

To rapturous chants of ‘Free SHS’ and ‘We can do it’, Dr. Bawumia stated that the pledge of making Secondary Education Free was key to the development of Ghana into a first class society, adding that Nana Akufo-Addo was committed to ensuring that the policy became a reality and that education in general received the necessary prioritization and resources.

Dr. Bawumia is on a seven (7) day tour of the Upper East Region, on the second leg of his Northern Ghana tour which has already seen him intensively tour the Northern Region and spent Monday touring the Bolgatanga constituency.

Dr. Bawumia is accompanied on the tour by former Vice-President, Alhaji Aliu Mahama, Sheik T B Damba, 2nd National Vice Chairman of the NPP, Hajia Alima Mahama, former Minister under the Kufuor administration, Hon. Kofi Adda, former Minister and Member of Parliament for the Navrongo Central constituency, Prince Imoro Andani, former Northern Regional Minister and a host of other prominent leaders of the NPP in Northern Ghana.

From: NPP Communications Directorate

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