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Kwadwo Baah Agyemang has pulled out of the Asante Akim North parliamentary primary of the New Patriotic Party, describing the voting in the area as “illegal” and “concert activity”. He told TV3 Saturday that he and his supporters will not be part of the illegality being perpetuated by the constituency executives who resolved to go ahead with the primary despite the filing of an injunction against the process. Although the executives of the party at the national headquarters, the EC and the Police were served with the application Friday, the constituency executives claimd they have no knowledge whatsoever about such…

An aspirant in the Effiduase Asokore parliamentary primary of the New Patriotic Party, Lawyer Adom Appiah, has been assaulted by some military personnel deployed to the area to provide security. Mr Appiah who is seeking to unseat the incumbent MP, Nana Ayew Afriye, had approached Electoral Commission officials at the Effiduase South polling station to know the register being used for the Saturday polls. The EC officials ignored him, a situation that triggered argument between him and the EC officials causing the military personnel at the polling station to give him three slaps. “He was slapped three times and but…

It was a free for all fight when a man said to be a Bureau of National Investigations operative from the Foreign Affairs Ministry turned up in the Bantama constituency to cast a vote in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary primary in the area. The incident, which happened at the Center for National Culture polling station Saturday halted voting temporarily until a police reinforcement intervened, our correspondent William Evans-Nkum, reported from the scene a while ago. Watch the incident below By 3news.com|Ghana

Executives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Asante Akim North constituency of the Ashanti Region Saturday defied a pending injunction application to hold parliamentary primary in the area. Some 145 delegates of the party who claimed their names have been “unlawfully” and “fraudulently” missing from the register filed the injunction to stop today’s contest between the  incumbent Andy Kwame Appiah Kubi and former MP Kwadwo Baah Agyemang. Although the executives of the party at the national headquarters, the EC and the Police were served with the application Friday, constituency executives claim they have no knowledge whatsoever about such…

The New Patriotic Party chairman for Sunyani East in the Bono Region, Musah Damtarl, is alleging he has been attacked at gunpoint by some persons said to be known followers of the Member of Parliament for the constituency, Kwasi Ameyaw-Cheremeh. Mr Damtarl and the two others were said to be returning from the Sunyani Residency when one Lawyer Asare Atua, Asoma Salia popularly called Tupac and one other person, who allegedly wielded pistols and other weapon, accosted the chairman and his men and threatened to “finish them”. But for the timely intervention of the some personnel at the Bono Regional…

Thousands of New Patriotic Party delegates across the country are voting in the second phase of the party’s parliamentary primaries to elect candidates for some 168 constituencies. The election, which started at 7:00 am Saturday and being conducted in constituencies where the NPP holds the parliamentary seats, is being contested by a total of 370 aspirants of which 87 per cent are male and 13 per cent female. A total of 67 of the candidates are going unopposed; 55 males and 12 females. Who are going unopposed? AHAFO REGION TANO SOUTH: Sekyere Benjamin Yeboah Yeboah is currently the Deputy Regional…

Savana Signatures, a non-governmental organisation, is urging government to step up its adherence to the World Health Organisation’s guidelines to protect the vulnerable in the country against the novel coronavirus. It wants government to fully follow the WHO covid-19 protocols put in place to ensure people with disabilities and the aged who are at greater risk of contracting the virus are protected. People with disabilities, especially children, it said, are most often ignored in terms of development initiatives that will promote their wellbeing and this makes them vulnerable to health-related issues thus resulting in health complications. The organisation said although…

Central Regional Minister, Kwamena Duncan, has launched the second phase of the disinfection exercise in senior high and basic schools in the Central Region to be carried out by Zoomlion Ghana Limited The event which was launched at the Regional Coordinating Council in Cape Coast Thursday, created a platform for police chiefs, health and educational directors in the region to brainstorm and issue a communiqué on enforcing the Covid-19 directives in schools. According to the regional minister, the disinfection of both private and public senior high schools in the region will create a safe and proper environment for final-year students…

Delegates of the New Patriotic Party in Atiwa East constituency of the Eastern Region have affirmed the candidature of the incumbent Member of Parliament, Abena Osei Asare, as the party’s candidate for the December parliamentary election. The decision is in line with the party’s guidelines for the conduct of its parliamentary primaries ahead of the 2020 general elections. General Secretary, John Boadu, on June 8 outlined the party’s guidelines for the 2020 primaries, stating there shall be no elections in constituencies with unopposed candidates. The unopposed candidates, per the guidelines, are only enjoined to address their delegates at a special…

The former Northern Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Daniel Bugri Naabu, has backed the decision by the Electoral Commission to compile a new voters’ register for the conduct of the upcoming general elections He said the EC has even delayed in the compilation because the need for a new register has been long overdue. “Nobody should tell us the EC shouldn’t have a new voters’ register for 202 elections” he said on Onua TV, adding the old one is what was “used for 2012 and 2016 elections and look at what happened”. He argued that the since…