For the benefit of my cherished readers and those who have not followed my previous articles in the past 10 years, I have decided to crown the year 2016 with this particular edition to whet the appetite of the vulnerable and the silent majority in society. Fellow Ghanaians and compatriots, what a joy it was … Read more
President John Mahama must use his last State of the Nation address billed for Thursday, 5 January, to render an unqualified apology to former President Jerry John Rawlings for “alienating” him during his four-year term in office, Mr Sam Okudzeto, former president of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), has said. The veteran lawyer also said … Read more
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has said the recent 35th anniversary ceremony of the 31st December revolution was not “an avenue to promote any individual’s political ambition or agenda”. Shortly after the anniversary ceremony on Saturday at the Revolutionary Square in Accra, broadcaster Paul Adom-Otchere said the event was more or less used as a … Read more
The Mahama-led NDC government is the first to be voted out of power after a term in office How did President John Dramani Mahama and the National Democratic Congress lose the December 7 polls? Did the New Patriotic Party put up superior strategy to outweigh the much-touted unprecedented achievements of the outgoing ruling party? Could … Read more
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has condemned reports of violent clashes between supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) at Suhum in the Eastern Region on Monday, January 3. The former President said in a statement that reports of pre-election and post-election intimidation and violence have to be properly … Read more
“Most people are yet to recover from the traumatic shock of the December 7th election results. “But I will have to state that if we turn our backs to our history us a party, we cannot escape the responsibility for the result”. “I kept providing the warning whenever and wherever I could, and in public … Read more
That is what dyed-in-the-wool communists do… pretend as if everybody is a nincompoop like themselves, in order to conveniently investigate the obvious. The fact of the matter is that the government of the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) lost Election 2016 because even as the party’s own longtime General-Secretary, Mr. Johnson Asiedu-Nketia, publicly acknowledged, the … Read more
Former President Jerry John Rawlings must desist from blaming individuals for the defeat of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the December 7, 2016 elections and rather see the outcome of the polls as a collective failure by the party, Anthony Nukpenu, Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the NDC, has said. According to him, the … Read more
Former President Jerry John Rawlings publicly affects sadness about the defeat of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the recent presidential elections but is inwardly happy about the party’s loss, Osei Kwadwo, a political science lecturer at the Ghana Institute of Journalism, has said. According to him, Mr Rawlings’ actions and inaction prior to the … Read more
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has vowed not to respond to ‘scathing criticisms’ from its founder, following the setting up of a 13-member committee to investigate the causes of the party’s humiliating defeat in last year’s general elections. According to former President JJ Rawlings, the NDC’s defeat in the December 7, 2016 presidential and parliamentary … Read more
The Greater Accra Region Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is peeved about the role the party’s founder, Jerry John Rawlings, played in the defeat in the December 7 polls. He reiterated that the founder must share in the reason for the defeat. Speaking on 3FM’s Sunrise on Tuesday, January 3, Anthony Nukpenu insisted … Read more
Some of these presidents earned their nicknames based on what they did, out of their own utterances or sometimes out of fun. Here are 7 of such cases. 1. Kwame Nkrumah – Showboy Kwame Nkrumah during his tenure earned the nickname Nkrumah Showboy due to his numerous positive developments. 2. J. J. Rawlings – Mr. … Read more
Leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has said that they will not respond to the various disparaging comments being made by the founder of the party, Former President Jerry John Rawlings over their defeat in the December elections. This was decision by the NDC was disclosed by the party’s 2016 Elections Campaign Coordinator, Kofi … Read more
It is needless for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to fight its founder Jerry John Rawlings over its loss at the 2016 elections, National Organiser of the party Kofi Adams has said. Mr Rawlings at the 35th anniversary of the December 31 uprising said the NDC caused its own loss. “The NDC’s painful and massive … Read more
The National Democratic Congress (NDC), has stated that in the short-term, it will refrain from responding to its founder, Jerry John Rawlings’ diagnosis of the party’s poor performance in the past elections. Blaming the party’s defeat, considered to be worst of a sitting government, on corruption, impunity and disrespect, former president Rawlings said the NDC … Read more
The National Democratic Congress (NDC), has stated that in the short-term, it will refrain from responding to its founder, Jerry John Rawlings’ diagnosis of the party’s poor performance in the past elections. Blaming the party’s defeat, considered to be worst of a sitting government, on corruption, impunity and disrespect, former president Rawlings said the NDC … Read more
The National Democratic Congress (NDC), has stated that in the short -term, it will refrain from responding to its founder, Jerry John Rawlings’ diagnoses of the party’s poor performance in the just ended elections. Blaming the party’s defeat, considered to be worst of a sitting government, to corruption, impunity and disrespect, former president Rawlings said the NDC … Read more
The reasons for the overthrow of Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah are multifarious. It ranges from the hated one party state dictatorship to almighty corruption. Kotoka and his lieutenants kicked him out as a result, and replaced him with General Ankrah. Hardly did we have time to breathe a sigh of relief when the ugly face … Read more
The reasons for the overthrow of Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah are multifarious. It ranges from the hated one party state dictatorship to almighty corruption. Kotoka and his lieutenants kicked him out as a result, and replaced him with General Ankrah. Hardly did we have time to breathe a sigh of relief when the ugly face … Read more
PREAMBLE Comrades, honestly, the actions and inactions of our founder JJ Rawlings bring more condemnation to the NDC PARTY than votes. He’s speedily eroding the gains the party has chalked over the years. Let’s stand and put up positive defiance against JJ. Remember, the NDC party belongs to all of us but not one person, … Read more