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Source: starrfmonline. com - There were gunshots at a meeting between NDC Presidential hopeful Sylvester Mensah and party delegates at Suame in the Ashanti region Monday.
The incident, according to sources, was triggered by some confusion that surrounded the busing of delegates to the venue Mr. Mensah was set to meet them. Source: Asempa FM - It has emerged that about nine hundred thousand (900,000) members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) did not vote in the 2016 general elections. Flag-bearer hopeful of the opposition NDC, Dr Spio Garbrah, disclosed this on Asempa FM Monday.
Rev. Frimpong Manso: The stories of Atewa and Chereponi are not any different from what happened in the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency last week.
President of the Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council has said, the country's two dominant political parties have a long way to go to advance their politics.
Rev Paul Frimpong Manso said the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) do not understand politics. The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) warned the violent nature of the by-election are dangerous signs ahead of the 2020 general elections. The General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Johnson Asiedu Nketia says the violence that characterized the by-election in Ayawaso West Wuogon was the governing New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) grand strategy for the 2020 elections.
The Paramount Chief of Aflao, Togbe Amenya Fiti V, has advised the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to elect a flag bearer who will be a “leader for all’.
"If you do not elect a flag bearer for all, accessible even to the grass roots, but keep him for yourself as NDC candidate or for a particular group or club, then you keep him for your own election peril. “The position of the NDC is very simple; This Emile Short Commission is a non-starter on the basis of its composition, obvious political colouring, and the President’s own track record.” The National Democratic Congress has questioned the credibility of the persons impaneled by the president to probe the violence that characterized the Ayawasos West Wuogon by election last week.
Government on Wednesday set up the three-member commission of inquiry to look into the circumstances of, and establish the facts leading to the violent incident and to identify person(s) responsible for it. General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Johnson Asiedu Nketia has revealed that the ‘Heroes’ Fund’ set up to assist supporters and loyalists who have encountered misfortunes, incapacitations or other forms of deprivations in the course of their service to the party does not exist anymore.
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