Tag Archives: PARTIES

Election 2024: EC, Political Parties must work towards peace – Presbyterian Moderator

The Right Reverend Dr Abraham Nana Opare Kwakye, Moderator of the General Assembly of The Presbyterian Church, has asked the Electoral Commission, Political Parties and Civil Society Organisations to work towards peace in the upcoming General Election. He said the citizens also had a crucial role to play to maintain …

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Supreme Court rules chiefs cannot endorse candidates or parties

In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court of Ghana has declared that it is unconstitutional for chiefs to endorse candidates or political parties. However, the court clarified that chiefs can praise or commend a candidate’s policies without violating the Constitution. Justice Emmanuel Yonny Kulendi, who authored the court’s judgment in November …

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Five political parties endorse EC’s new CI

Five political parties with no representation in Parliament have endorsed the new Constitutional Instrument (CI) proposed by the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana for the 2024 general elections. The Political Parties namely, the Liberal Party of Ghana, LPG, The Great Consolidated peoples Party GCPP, All People Congress APC , the …

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Opposition parties call for fresh elections in Nigeria

 Three opposition parties are calling on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cancel the just-ended elections and rerun them due to widespread irregularities in the elections. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Labour Party, and the African Democratic Congress (ADC) made the announcement at a press conference in the …

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Election is brainwork, don’t recruit nonentities as polling agents – Afari-Gyan to political parties

Former commissioner of the Electoral Commission of Ghana, Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan has advised political parties to ensure the recruitment of persons with knowledge in electoral processes as polling agents. According to him, it is important for political parties to rely on competent persons as polling agents rather than those who can foment …

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Let us hasten our ‘marriage’ instead of make merry merry this festive season – Coalition to mother parties

We the National Youth Organizers bring to the leadership of our various political parties Seasonal Greetings. We all have witnessed the Try and Error Economic policies and bad governance which the NPP and the NDC have both given the people of Ghana since 1993. Ghanaians are unhappy, tired and on …

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Nine individuals in ‘galamsey’, fraud funded political parties during 2020 elections -CDD-Ghana Report

Research conducted by the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) has revealed that at least nine individuals engaged in ‘galamsey’ and fraud, funded political parties during the 2020 general elections as top financiers. According to the report, seven financiers were involved in serious and organized crime, one in illegal oil bunkering …

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Bolgatanga Police bans all Valentine day pub/spots parties

Police in the Upper East regional capital, Bolgatanga has banned all forms of celebrations for valentine’s day on February 14. This was after it picked information that some pubs and spots have planned programmes to mark the day. A statement from the Divisional Headquarters said it’s imperative that pubs and …

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