Tag Archives: NPP
By Kofi Thompson There are some political analysts who insist that it was the extraordinary carelessness of certain key individuals in Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo’s inner-circle, which resulted in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) becoming complacent to a degree that … read more »
Posted in Article, Ghana, Op-ed, West Africa
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Tagged Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, John Dramani Mahama, Mahama, National Democratic Congress, NDC, New Patriotic Party, NPP
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The policization of all affairs of the state is a major problem slowing down the progress of the country through delay in decision making processes. All management of state affairs suffer the negative politics rendered by the two dominating political … read more »
Posted in Article, Ghana, Op-ed, West Africa
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Tagged Ghana, IndepthAfrica, Legon, National Democratic Congress, New Patriotic Party, NPP, political science, Politics, University of Ghana
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By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. The decision by the three members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to prevail on a legitimately constituted court of the land to force New Patriotic Party (NPP) members in Ghana’s parliament to officially recognize … read more »
Posted in Article, Ghana, West Africa
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Tagged Ghana, IndepthAfrica, John Dramani Mahama, Mahama, National Democratic Congress, NDC, New Patriotic Party, NPP, Supreme Court
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor Folks, the NPP leaders and their followers have once again come face-to-face with their own ghosts on the political terrain—and are scared stiff by what they see. Will they join President Mahama on Wednesday to … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Michael Bokor, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged AFAG, Ghana, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, Ghanaians, Independence Day, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Kwame Pianim, NPP
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By OPOKU BONNA This last general election is the third time NPP has officially complained bitterly about their verdict been stolen by the NDC in Ghana. But in all, they have been very reasonable in handling the issue. This time … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Ghana, West Africa
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Tagged Electoral Commission, Ghana, IndepthAfrica, John Dramani Mahama, Nana Akufo-Addo, National Democratic Congress, NDC, New Patriotic Party, NPP
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor One fashionable strategy being adopted these days by the mainstream political parties to disguise their activities is the formation and use of politically motivated groups that they disguise as civil society groupings. Mushrooming all over … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Ghana, Michael Bokor, West Africa
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Tagged Accra, Ghana, IndepthAfrica, National Democratic Congress, National Democratic Party, NDC, New Patriotic Party, NPP, United States
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor When Kwame Pianim said before the 2008 elections that any idiot can bear/carry the flag of a political party, many didn’t understand him. Is he not right, after all? Of course, he was reacting to … read more »
Posted in Article, Ghana, Michael Bokor, West Africa
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Tagged Ghana, IndepthAfrica, John Kufuor, Kwame Pianim, Mahama, member of parliament, New Patriotic Party, NPP, State of the Nation Address
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor The Founder and leader of Glorious Word Ministry International, Rev. Isaac Owusu Bempah, is in the news again for the wrong reason. He is reported to have predicted that President Mahama will die this year … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Ghana, Michael Bokor
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Tagged Aliu Mahama, Ghana, God, IndepthAfrica, Mahama, New Patriotic Party, NPP, Owusu Bempah, Supreme Court of the United States
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By Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK Yesterday February 5, 2013 will go down in history as the second turning point in the ongoing Presidential Petition. The Supreme Court (SC) by unanimous decision allowed the application by Nana Akufo Addo et al, … read more »
Posted in Article, Ghana, West Africa
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Tagged Cambridge, Electoral Commission, Ghana, Holloway, IndepthAfrica, John Dramani Mahama, Nana Akufo-Addo, NPP, Supreme Court
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Many politicians are always placing the attainment of power OVER and ABOVE the pursuit of PRINCIPLES. Some politicians are prepared to CONDONE and CONNIVE in doing the WRONG THINGS if that would enable them to ACHIEVE or BASK in the … read more »
Posted in Article, Ghana, West Africa
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Tagged Ghana, IndepthAfrica, Jerry Rawlings, John Atta Mills, Kwame Nkrumah, Nana Akufo-Addo, NDC, NPP, Obuasi
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor We have on several occasions had cause to question the integrity of the NPP’s Kennedy Agyapong (Assin Central MP) because of the dare-devil posture he has assumed to make foul—very foul—public pronouncements. But he is … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Ghana, Michael Bokor, West Africa
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Tagged Afari-Gyan, Akufo-Addo, EC number, Electoral Commission, Ghana, Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, National Democratic Congress, NPP
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor President Mahama has made more appointments. Significantly absent from the list are those variously qualified as “babies with sharp teeth” and “evil dwarfs” (apologies to JJ Rawlings). These elements are best known for fighting the … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Ghana, Michael Bokor, West Africa
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Tagged Ghana, IndepthAfrica, indepthafrica ghana news, Jerry Rawlings, Mahama, National Democratic Congress, NDC, New Patriotic Party, NPP, President of the United States
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor Folks, there is more trouble in Osonokrom. President Mahama’s intention to call about 4,800 witnesses to testify for him in the NPP’s election-related case now before the Supreme Court has sent serious shock waves through … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Ghana, Michael Bokor, West Africa
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Tagged Ghana, Ghana School of Law, lawsuit, Mahama, NDC, New Patriotic Party, NPP, Supreme Court, Supreme Court of the United States
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor The NPP certainly has huge problems to solve if it seeks to change its fortunes in future general elections. Despite the vehement protestations against the outcome of Election 2012 and the filing of a lawsuit … read more »
Posted in Article, Ghana, Michael Bokor, West Africa
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Tagged Edward Akufo-Addo, Emmanuel Obetsebi-Lamptey, Ghana, IndepthAfrica, Kwame Nkrumah, Muslim Association Party, New Patriotic Party, NPP, United Gold Coast Convention
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor What we see unfolding from the NPP front is not freakish nor will it abate soon. It won’t because it is the culmination of the party’s grand agenda in response to the unexpected outcome of … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Ghana, Michael Bokor, West Africa
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Tagged Akufo-Addo, Electoral Commission, IndepthAfrica, Mahama, Mahamudu Bawumia, National Democratic Congress, NPP, Supreme Court, Supreme Court of the United States
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The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) will boycott the inauguration of President John Dramani Mahama on January 7, the party’s National Executive Committee decided on Wednesday. “The NPP will not be there. It will make nonsense of the petition we … read more »
By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor We have had good cause to posit arguments that the NPP’s lawsuit at the Supreme Court won’t be determined solely on the figures and documents that are contained in the petition filed by the party’s … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Ghana, Michael Bokor, West Africa
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Tagged Electoral Commission, ghana election, IndepthAfrica, Jacob Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey, Mahamudu Bawumia, New Patriotic Party, NPP, Petitioner, Supreme Court, Supreme Court of the United States
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor Now that the NPP leaders have submitted their petition to the Supreme Court to demand the declaration of their defeated flagbearer, Akufo-Addo, as winner of Election 2012, they seem to have made good their threat … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Ghana, Michael Bokor, West Africa
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Tagged Electoral Commission, IndepthAfrica, John Dramani Mahama, Mahama, National Democratic Congress, New Patriotic Party, NPP, President, Supreme Court
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By Sidibe, Abdul Nana Akofu-Addo’s political career is dead and over. Instead of allowing his political family to say good bye and bury the body, he is forcing them to keep and worship the body, and get contaminated in process. … read more »
Posted in Article, Ghana, West Africa
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Tagged Election, Electoral Commission, Ghana, Ghana news, IndepthAfrica, Nana Akufo-Addo, National Democratic Congress, NDC, New Patriotic Party, NPP
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor Even though the NPP is yet to file its case at the Supreme Court to fight the EC (the NDC and the media too) over the outcome of the Presidential elections, I am quite certain … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Ghana, Michael Bokor, West Africa
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Tagged Akufo-Addo, Electoral Commission, IndepthAfrica, John Dramani Mahama, Mahama, National Democratic Congress, NDC, NPP, Supreme Court
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor Even though the NPP is yet to file its case at the Supreme Court to fight the EC (the NDC and the media too) over the outcome of the Presidential elections, I am quite certain … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Ghana, Michael Bokor, West Africa
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Tagged Akufo-Addo, Electoral Commission, Ghana news, ghanaian news, IndepthAfrica, John Dramani Mahama, Mahama, National Democratic Congress, NDC, NPP, Supreme Court
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor After basking in the accolade given him by his followers as a “legal luminary,” the day is gradually dawning for Akufo-Addo to prove that mettle. Will he go to the Supreme Court and stop this … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Michael Bokor
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Tagged Akufo-Addo, Arthur Kennedy, CHINUA ACHEBE, Ghana, Ghana news, ghanaian news, God, IndepthAfrica, New Patriotic Party, NPP, Supreme Court
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor A truism is that Ghanaian politics is heavily influenced by ethnic sentiments (call it tribalism).Over the years, the ebb and flow of national and local politics indicates the extent to which ethnicity has dominated our … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Ghana, Michael Bokor, West Africa
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Tagged Akan, Asante, Ghana, IndepthAfrica, National Democratic Congress, NDC, New Patriotic Party, NPP, Upper West Region
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor We have so far been interrogating the NPP’s rejection of the results of the Presidential elections and wondered why the focus is on only that aspect of the general elections. As the party’s leaders continue … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Ghana, Michael Bokor, West Africa
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Tagged Akufo-Addo, Ghana, Ghana news, John Dramani Mahama, Mahama, National Democratic Congress, NDC, NPP, Supreme Court
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor Do you recall what happened when rumours circulated that Akufo-Addo had pissed on a mosque in the Tamale area when he visited the palace of the local chief to seek his blessing for his bid … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Ghana, Michael Bokor, West Africa
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Tagged Akufo-Addo, Christianity, Ghana, God, IndepthAfrica, John Atta Mill, Mahamudu Bawumia, Mills, NPP
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opinion The 2012 general elections are over, but the outcomes are being disputed. Many Ghanaians who voted in a particular manner believe that they have been short-changed. Some discrepancies have been identified by the main opposition political party, the New … read more »
Posted in Article, Ghana, West Africa
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Tagged Ghana, IndepthAfrica, John Dramani Mahama, John Mahama, Nana Akufo-Addo, National Democratic Congress, NDC, New Patriotic Party, NPP
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor At long last, we now know what the NPP will go to the Supreme Court for. The party’s General Secretary, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, has enumerated three reliefs that the party will seek: The number of … read more »
Posted in Article, Canada, Ghana, Michael Bokor, West Africa
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Tagged Akufo-Addo, Ashanti Region, Ghana, IndepthAfrica, Mahama, Nana Akufo-Addo, New Patriotic Party, NPP, Supreme Court
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor Gradually, the NPP leaders and the party’s supporters have boxed themselves into a tight corner. Perhaps, they have counted too much self-confidence and misplaced trust in prominent personalities, including the Asantehene, Osei Tutu II, to … read more »
Posted in Article, Ghana, Michael Bokor, West Africa
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Tagged Akufo-Addo, Ashanti Region, Ghana, IndepthAfrica, John Dramani Mahama, Kumasi, New Patriotic Party, NPP, Supreme Court
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor Folks, the NPP’s “Concert Party” is turning ugly at this stage. Nerves are being strained to the breaking point and, if care is not taken, the situation in the party may take a sudden turn … read more »
Posted in Article, Ghana, Michael Bokor, West Africa
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Tagged Arthur Kennedy, Electoral Commission, IndepthAfrica, Intelligence quotient, NPP, Rawlings government, Supreme Court, Tarzan, Volta River Authority
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor We continue to focus attention on the NPP at this point in the post-election assessment of our national life. The threat to national stability posed by the riotous behaviour of its members still persists. Likewise, … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Ghana, Michael Bokor, West Africa
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Tagged Accra, EC number, indepthaffrica, John Dramani Mahama, Kumasi, NDC, New Patriotic Party, NPP, Supreme Court
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