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KOLA ,LONDON PROPER 12 years ago

Bigotry should be wiped out of Politics yet here we are now with a novice who also doubles as a bigot trying to justify the tribal party NPP's stand of singing the mantra, 'Yen Akanfo de3'.

Who Born Dog? Try and be Patriot ...
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Bigotry should be wiped out of Politics yet here we are now with a novice who also doubles as a bigot trying to justify the tribal party NPP's stand of singing the mantra, 'Yen Akanfo de3'.

Who Born Dog? Try and be Patriotic and National, it does not matter where UP, NPP came from, your NPP should be seen represent Ghana, not Akan, you childish graduate.
KOLA ,LONDON PROPER 12 years ago

Npp should be seen to represent Ghana not Akan.

Npp should be seen to represent Ghana not Akan.
Jato Julor (J.J.) Rawlings 12 years ago

Ignorant pretender Kwasi Osei Agyeman, a NDC renegade trying to spew his propaganda through the lenses of a NPP admirer.

The sorry-assed pretender doesn't know the history of the UP tradition, yet he decided to rail down t ...
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Ignorant pretender Kwasi Osei Agyeman, a NDC renegade trying to spew his propaganda through the lenses of a NPP admirer.

The sorry-assed pretender doesn't know the history of the UP tradition, yet he decided to rail down that road to spice his twaddles.

Need that ruffian be told that the UP tradition included the Northern Peoples Party(NPP) led by Chief S.D.Dombo,The Togoland Congress led by S.G.Antor,and the Anlo Youth Organisation too ?

It is funny how kids impregnated during the curfew hours of the 31st December 1981 armed robbery, or thereafter have been trying hard to rewrite Ghana's history
Kojo T 12 years ago

Akadu what have you got to say about thistribal post? Then my good friend Justice sarpong , " the cardinal of truth" We need your comments

Akadu what have you got to say about thistribal post? Then my good friend Justice sarpong , " the cardinal of truth" We need your comments
John Agyekum Diawuo KUFFUOR 12 years ago

It is better so say "kids concieved duirng the curfew hours of the 31st December 1981..." intead of "kids impregnated during the curfew hours of 31st December...", because impregnating a kid is a crime.

It is better so say "kids concieved duirng the curfew hours of the 31st December 1981..." intead of "kids impregnated during the curfew hours of 31st December...", because impregnating a kid is a crime.
Mundus 12 years ago

NPP main base is not Akan but Ashante and Akyem. The NPP in the past two elections has only won two of the five predominantly Akan regions.If NPP won most Akan votes the NPP would have been ruling Ghana.

NPP main base is not Akan but Ashante and Akyem. The NPP in the past two elections has only won two of the five predominantly Akan regions.If NPP won most Akan votes the NPP would have been ruling Ghana.
Dabonga 12 years ago

The fact that NPP has its base in the Akan areas is not in itself bad or something to run away from. All over the world political parties have areas they draw their support from. Therefore being branded as a party of the majo ...
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The fact that NPP has its base in the Akan areas is not in itself bad or something to run away from. All over the world political parties have areas they draw their support from. Therefore being branded as a party of the majority ethnic group is not bad at all. But that does not mean it must be led always by a member from the majority group. If someone like Dr. Bawumia who is not an Akan but well liked by the Akans gets the support of the Akans to lead NPP it will help show the inclusiveness of the party and the openness of Akans. It will be a win-win situation for the country and all. However, in making such proposition, people should not be selling it from their own ethnocentric bais and make it seem as though it is compensating for their percieved righting some past wrong doings. After all the Akans and northerns have gotten along historically for centuries until Rawlings started to sow seeds of discord between us.
The Stallion 12 years ago

Will you ever make Bawumia your leader, even if all the angels descend from heaven to tell you that he will win the NPP ticket? Nonsense. Aboa bi ba!

Will you ever make Bawumia your leader, even if all the angels descend from heaven to tell you that he will win the NPP ticket? Nonsense. Aboa bi ba!
Kofi Asaase- Asa----Mantukwa 12 years ago

I do not have anything against Dr. Bawumia. Neither do I discriminate against any Ghanaian from any Region or tribe, but the issue is this;

If the petition that had been filed by them succeeds, then the petitioners have a ...
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I do not have anything against Dr. Bawumia. Neither do I discriminate against any Ghanaian from any Region or tribe, but the issue is this;

If the petition that had been filed by them succeeds, then the petitioners have a brighter political future. But if it crumbles, then it crumbles with the political future of Dr. Bawumia.

As for Nana Akuffo Addo, if he wins the petition, and the leadership changes, good! if not, he would not decide to run again because of age.

As I commented already somewhere on this article, NPP has to look elsewhere apart from Kumasi and Kibi, for another leadership.

Tamale, is becoming a dominant Region but we have to go elsewhere. My best bet is to go to Accra, for a Ga-speaking leadership.

Another fertile ground is the Volta Region. We have learned personlities who are ardent supporters and members of The NPP. If they come up to run for the leadership, we should forget about anything and choose them. After-all, a political party is made up of people with the same or identical ideas who come together to win elections through the ballot box, but if the 'ballot box' is becoming a 'boxing box', then Nana Akuffo Addo , Dr. Mawumia and Hon. Jake , should fight 'tooth and nail' to retain its status of a 'ballot box' through the Supreme court.

Thank you Nana.
Thank Dr. Bawumia. and
Thank you, Hon. Jake Obestebi Lamptey.

God bless you and help you to succeed in all your endeavors!. Than you again. God Bless. Amen.
BARIMA AKAN ASANTE 12 years ago

WELL SAID SIR, AKANS AND NORTHERNERS ALWAYS GOT ALONG WELL BEFORE RAWLINGS SOWED TRIBAL DISCORD IN ORDER TO WIN ELECTIONS, AND UNFORTUNATELY SOME IDIOTS IN OUR MIDST STILL SUBSCRIBE TO THIS IDIOCY. S.D DOMBO FOLDED HIS NORTHE ...
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WELL SAID SIR, AKANS AND NORTHERNERS ALWAYS GOT ALONG WELL BEFORE RAWLINGS SOWED TRIBAL DISCORD IN ORDER TO WIN ELECTIONS, AND UNFORTUNATELY SOME IDIOTS IN OUR MIDST STILL SUBSCRIBE TO THIS IDIOCY. S.D DOMBO FOLDED HIS NORTHERN PEOPLE'S PARTY AND JOINED THE U.P DOES THIS NOT SAY A LOT ABOUT THE NORTHERN/AKAN ALLIANCE. WE AS A PEOPLE SHOULD WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COCOA AND NOT ALLOW ILL-INTENDED INDIVIDUALS TO DIVIDE US. RAWLINGS USED DIVISION IN ORDER TO CONQUER, AND SADLY WE HAVE STILL NOT LEARNED FROM IT. THE NPP IS BASED ON THE DANQUAH, BUSIA, DOMBO TRADITION. WE SHOULD NEVER FORGET THAT.

Isaac 12 years ago

Why do you fools refuse to learn? When at all will you stop taking Ghanaians and Northners for a fool? By assuming that Rawlings is playing anti Akans against Northners to win elections mean Northners and all those who dont f ...
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Why do you fools refuse to learn? When at all will you stop taking Ghanaians and Northners for a fool? By assuming that Rawlings is playing anti Akans against Northners to win elections mean Northners and all those who dont follow NPP cant think for themselves?

1) Why do you blame Rawlings for Ewes shying away from NPP when V. Owusu insulted all Ewes on a disagreement with one Ewe?

2) Is Rawlings to be blamed for Northners shying away from NPP when 3 days to election Ursula Owusu tells a Northern NDC on radio that if not for free education he will be rearing Goats and Cattle like all uneducated Northners do?

3) Blame Rawlings for Gas not voting NPP when Ken Agyepong calls on Ashantis to kill Ewes and Gas because of one foolish Ga man Nii lantey?

4) Blame Rawlings for all the foolish articles NPP supportters write on Ghana web attacking the minority tribes?

NPP will will solidly one daqy when fools like you see the light, become honest and stop blaming someone else for your own short comings.
Kanti Baah 12 years ago

You are thinking like a real Ashanti who is very remote from the reality. NPP is not an Akan Party but Ashanti/ Akyems Party because level headed people like Arthur Kennedy and Dr Bilson, Dr Kweku Afriyie have all been margin ...
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You are thinking like a real Ashanti who is very remote from the reality. NPP is not an Akan Party but Ashanti/ Akyems Party because level headed people like Arthur Kennedy and Dr Bilson, Dr Kweku Afriyie have all been marginalized because they are not Ashanti/Akyems. Don't deceive yourself into thinking that only Ashanti/Akyems will win elections for you.Follow the 2012 elections and you will be surprised that all the minority tribes voted against your party. Come 2016 your party will go down further until you realized that the truth.you taxi drivers over there think you can still look down on the rest of Ghanaians. God forbid
Oba Nyansani Baako Pe In Ghana! 12 years ago

Nana Addo will SURELY take the Presidency from John Dramani Mahama at all cost.

Every wise man in Ghana believes that Mahama did not win the 2012 election but EC, Kwadwo Afari Gyan was in favour with Mahamato become the Pr ...
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Nana Addo will SURELY take the Presidency from John Dramani Mahama at all cost.

Every wise man in Ghana believes that Mahama did not win the 2012 election but EC, Kwadwo Afari Gyan was in favour with Mahamato become the President of Ghana.

Because of that Ghana cannot move ahed and also EC has killed our Democracy.
Paul Amuna 12 years ago

You must be joking if you think Ghanaians will fathom electing a party which decides that "ONLY AN AKAN DESERVES TO LEAD ITS FLAGBEARERSHIP. Personally, I have a NEGATIVE RATING. For Bawumia and cannot see an iota of leadersh ...
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You must be joking if you think Ghanaians will fathom electing a party which decides that "ONLY AN AKAN DESERVES TO LEAD ITS FLAGBEARERSHIP. Personally, I have a NEGATIVE RATING. For Bawumia and cannot see an iota of leadership in him. In my view, he does not represent the best from any part of Ghana, not just the north.

However, to think that anintllectual like you can make such a loose statement about who should lead a party that wants to broaden its base throughout the country is shocking in the least and outrageous in the extreme. That party my friend, will lose even independent voters in Ghana.
The Stallion 12 years ago

You made utterances during your campaign that cost you the presidency. Look at what one of them is saying again. This people paa. They are not educated like they say they are.
What kind of backward people are these?

You made utterances during your campaign that cost you the presidency. Look at what one of them is saying again. This people paa. They are not educated like they say they are.
What kind of backward people are these?
Kofi Asaase- Asa----Mantukwa 12 years ago

In the kingdom of the blind, the one eye man is the king. If people from other groups do not join and contest the elections of the party, how do you nominate somebody to lead.

NPP is made up of mostly Akans, so we have man ...
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In the kingdom of the blind, the one eye man is the king. If people from other groups do not join and contest the elections of the party, how do you nominate somebody to lead.

NPP is made up of mostly Akans, so we have many Akan candidates. Period.

When I was young, my parents were UP members, and at that time, I would be punished if I decided to join any other party apart from the UP, so the party membership was inculcated into us.
We grew up with the UP and so we, and now, most of us Akans, are automatic NPP members. It was injected automatically into our blood-stream.
Isaac 12 years ago

If other groups also do the same you will accuse them of herd mentality when you are the most guilty of primitive mindset in Ghana

If other groups also do the same you will accuse them of herd mentality when you are the most guilty of primitive mindset in Ghana
The Stallion 12 years ago

Nonsense. That is why you will continue to dominate in only two regions. Next time, you will win in only one region, abua funu. The Eastern region people have now seen that you are traitors!
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Nonsense. That is why you will continue to dominate in only two regions. Next time, you will win in only one region, abua funu. The Eastern region people have now seen that you are traitors!
Put an Ashanti as your flag-bearer and see how the Eastern region will vote 100% for the other party!! Nonsense!!!
Nana Bawuah 12 years ago

Who are the Easteners? Do you think all people of Eastern region are Akyems? For instance, New Juaben (Koforidua) is part of Asanteman. Even the Nifahene of Akyem-Abuakwa (Asiakwahene) is an Asante royal and ancestral brother ...
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Who are the Easteners? Do you think all people of Eastern region are Akyems? For instance, New Juaben (Koforidua) is part of Asanteman. Even the Nifahene of Akyem-Abuakwa (Asiakwahene) is an Asante royal and ancestral brother of the Asantehene. If the truth is to be said, then the people of Akadewaso, Moseaso, Gyegyeti(Jejeti),Enyiresi, Asaman Tamfoe, Mamanso, Kankang, Abekwoase and many other places in that region are Asantes. When did for instance, the people of Asamankese become Akyems? They are Akwamus (our Asante brothers).Do you think Asanteman only consists of Asante region? No, its far bigger than that! It consists of places in the Eastern region like New Juaben, places in the Volta region like Worawora, most areas of Bono-Ahafo region (formerly Western Asante region) and many other places. By the way, when did Volta region become an Ewe region. Ewes are the minority in that region (at least in the northern part of the Volta region). There are many Akan states, even Asante states in that region. How do you think names like Worawora, Nsuta or Oseikrom (Jasikan) came about?

Since, when do we have electins based on regions? The Asante region, in particular Kumase has the largest population density. If the whole of the Asante region+another region was to vote for a presidential candidate, it would be more than enought to obtain absolute majority. Why do you think, this misguided Nkrumah wanted to reduce voting power of Asantes? He tried to hive off a significant portion of our territoriy, but had to realize, that neither he nor any government had the power to do so. Therefore he shamefully went in for the political option.

Let NPP be an Akan party, then they do at least care for more than 50% of the entire population. Compare this with the Ewe party, which only represent a minority. Akans are the dominant force in Ghana and Ivory Coast, whether you like it or not!
Nana Bawuah 12 years ago

it would be more than enough to obtain absolute majority...

Since when do we have elections based on regions?

it would be more than enough to obtain absolute majority...

Since when do we have elections based on regions?

The Stallion 12 years ago

Are you happy that a party is associated with only one tribe?
Whether you are the dominant force or not, the minorities team up to become the majority ; how about that, Mr. tribalist?

Are you happy that a party is associated with only one tribe?
Whether you are the dominant force or not, the minorities team up to become the majority ; how about that, Mr. tribalist?
Nana Bawuah 12 years ago

The tiny minorities can team up as much as they want to, they will never become the majority. This is an empty promise once made by Rawlings, that the minority tribes would take over, once they come together against Akan and ...
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The tiny minorities can team up as much as they want to, they will never become the majority. This is an empty promise once made by Rawlings, that the minority tribes would take over, once they come together against Akan and in particular Asantes. Where is Rawlings his promised land? tweah Let every single Akan vote for NPP and all non-Akans vote for NDC and the NDC will barely get 40%. The NDC knows this, that is why they are trying to divide Akans. Their strategy has always been divide and rule.

By the way, I am not a member of any political party. I dont even believe in this silly colonial institution called the "Republic of Ghana".

Let the NPP be led by a non-Akan and the vast majority of their voters will not vote for them.
The Stallion 12 years ago

You seem to be a learned person, but I don't know why write comments like these.
Are you sure you don't belong to a political party like you are saying? so the "Republic of Ghana" shouldn't exist?

You seem to be a learned person, but I don't know why write comments like these.
Are you sure you don't belong to a political party like you are saying? so the "Republic of Ghana" shouldn't exist?
Nana Bawuah 12 years ago

I studied Economics and Management in Germany. Was I a worse person, if I would not hold an University degree? How come Ghanaians do worship degrees so much?

I have family members, who are high ranking NPP members, others ...
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I studied Economics and Management in Germany. Was I a worse person, if I would not hold an University degree? How come Ghanaians do worship degrees so much?

I have family members, who are high ranking NPP members, others are high ranking NDC people. However, our family was born into the CPP tradition. One of our family houses in Kumase was the place where the founding members of CPP came to meet. Krobo Edusei had rented a room there. At that time he and his people were broke. They influenced most of our family into CPP. My late father became his first secretary (Propaganda secretary) and best man. My late father a trained engineer and member of the institute of technicians and engineers in london, was given a scholoarship and sent to Germany by the Nkrumah administration. They wanted to build cars in Ghana. Later on we broke with Nkrumah and the CPP. When something is wrong, we will not say its right. We are not hypocrites like the present day Nkrumah worshippers.

I dont support the idea of dividing one people "often of the same blood lineage" by artificial colonial boundaries. I don`t support an institution, which is based on the idealogoies of a colonial government. I have a problem with this whole system of "Westminster type" and "American type" of democracy in Africa. We have fashioned democracy without looking at our own peculiar systems of administration. We borrowed wholesale from the Western type of democracy without looking at our peculiarities as Africans, as Ghanaians. What was the system we were operating before the coming of the Europeans? How did we live, how did we govern ourselves before the coming of Western democracy? Who decides the four-year and five-year terms? Is it the people of Africa, of Ghana, or have we borrowed it because the Westminster type of democracy has a four-year or five-year term for the prime minister? Democracy had existed in Africa for aeons before the coming of the Europeans. We had our own system of governance which gave everybody the chance to air their views, people would call their own witnesses in judicial matters, we had our own systems of administration at the community and nation-state level, everywhere! And therefore, if we were fashioning this democratic, whatever it is now, couldn't we have looked at the circumstances within the African continent and designed some type of democracy that best suited Africa?

while traditional institutions’ roots are ancient, they are a repository of the history and the collective experience of a people. The history and the experience are the foundations on which solid modern institutions are built. Nothing emanates from a vacuum.Clearly, modernity requires more than mere institutions. It demands an evolution in the thinking of a people. Evolution in this sense is a gradual refinement of the fundamental ways of thinking and institutions of the people. Our post-colonial leaders did not seem to understand this fact. They adopted colonial institutions wholesale.

The problem for post-colonial African governments seeking to attain legitimacy is two-fold: One, the institutions they are basing their authority on are foreign. Two, since there were, and is, a multitude of traditional institutions with legitimacy and authority among the different ethnic communities in any given nation, it’s not efficient nor desirable, to have one uniform, blanket administrative approach in all regions. You do barely see a centralized republic in Europe. They do either have constitutional monarchies (such as Netherlands, UK, Spain, Norway, Denmark etc.) or federal republics (such as Germany). East Germany was a centralized republic, where everything was owned and controlled by the state and this led to what? A socialistic dictatorship!

t is no wonder then that most African constitutions are not quite worth the paper they are written on. Most start with an underlying premise that the people’s indigenous traditions, including their wisdom in matters of local governance, are best suppressed in favor of poorly understood foreign models.

With whom are you trading with, with your own people from Ivory Coast, Togo etc? No, you are dealing with your former colonial masters or should I say you allow yourself to be exploited. If there was a west-african regional trading block, we would be very powerful, but this is not the case. Small countries trying to negoiate with big industrial countries and will always lose, because they are politically weak. They even tell you what you have to produce and in what you have to invest. Look for instance, at the Bretton Woods System, its gone wrong. Yet you blindly copied it. Our so called illiterate ancestors were far more advance, than our present generation, which prides itself with having gone trhough western education. Africa is very mighty, but we are making it weak by not believing in ourselves!
ABU RAZAK DILLAKA 12 years ago

I AGREE THAT THIS WHOLE TRIBAL NONSENSE STARTED WITH RAWLINGS TRYING HIS DIVIDE AND CONQUER TACTICS. AND HE HAS SUCCEEDED IN ADDING AN AKAN GROUP LIKE THE FANTIS TO HIS PARTY IN ORDER TO DISSOLVE THE MAJORITY AKAN VOTE. HE KN ...
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I AGREE THAT THIS WHOLE TRIBAL NONSENSE STARTED WITH RAWLINGS TRYING HIS DIVIDE AND CONQUER TACTICS. AND HE HAS SUCCEEDED IN ADDING AN AKAN GROUP LIKE THE FANTIS TO HIS PARTY IN ORDER TO DISSOLVE THE MAJORITY AKAN VOTE. HE KNEW THE FANTIS COULD BE MANIPULATED AS THEY HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THROUGHOUT HISTORY AND TIME IMMEMORIAL. HE PUT ATTA-MILLS AS PRESIDENT, AND THE FANTIS RAN TO THE NDC, IT IS THE SAME TRICK WITH AMISSAH-ARTHUR, AND NOW THE FANTIS THINK NDC LOVES THEM. WHAT A SORRY NATION.
Kwaku 12 years ago

Mr. Kwasi Osei Agyemang, sometimes I feel some of you don't think twice before posting articles on Ghana Web. Akans have brains who can on any day enter leadership. People like Agyekum Kufuor who sold GTC and took a bribe of ...
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Mr. Kwasi Osei Agyemang, sometimes I feel some of you don't think twice before posting articles on Ghana Web. Akans have brains who can on any day enter leadership. People like Agyekum Kufuor who sold GTC and took a bribe of one million dollars, Nana Addo a drug addict etc. To me, you are a fool.
kodwo asante, Bronx NY 12 years ago

You are the type of idiots from the Ashanti land that is causing this great Party of Ghana. You are too short sighted individual without a vision. If you do follow politics and you truely lives in Canada then am so disappiont ...
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You are the type of idiots from the Ashanti land that is causing this great Party of Ghana. You are too short sighted individual without a vision. If you do follow politics and you truely lives in Canada then am so disappionted in you. your utterances are the reason why we can only always win only two regions in out of ten in Ghana. The good people of Ghana do not think and see things the way u stupidly sees things. Do not forget and make any mistake that a political party in not "the Ashanti Golden Stool" that the King should always comes from Ashanti. NPP is a Ghanaian party and any compitent person can be and SHOULD be elected to lead. Fools like u should make way for us our Party to grow and have be broader base than this 'Ashanti" thing.
Yag 12 years ago

I think he has to wait until he got enroll into all die be die free SHS for poor education.

I think he has to wait until he got enroll into all die be die free SHS for poor education.
Yag 12 years ago

I think he has to wait until he got enroll into all die be die free SHS for poor education.

I think he has to wait until he got enroll into all die be die free SHS for poor education.
afadi nsro 12 years ago

There they go again,a santimonious,self-righteuos tribal bigots and they think ,they are too go to rule.It will be a cold day in hell when this group of organised "armed" robbers see the light of power again.

There they go again,a santimonious,self-righteuos tribal bigots and they think ,they are too go to rule.It will be a cold day in hell when this group of organised "armed" robbers see the light of power again.

Nana Bawuah 12 years ago

The good people of Ghana do not think and see things the way u stupidly sees things.?

Who are you to speak for the people of Ghana?

"Do not forget and make any mistake that a political party in not "the Ashanti Golden S ...
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The good people of Ghana do not think and see things the way u stupidly sees things.?

Who are you to speak for the people of Ghana?

"Do not forget and make any mistake that a political party in not "the Ashanti Golden Stool" that the King should always comes from Ashanti.

I am disappointed in you, that you do not even know proper Twi. Its "Asante" and not Ashanti.

" NPP is a Ghanaian party and any compitent person can be and SHOULD be elected to lead."

No one gets it without competency, but competency alone is not enough. Nowhere in the world, not even in the business world will qualifications and competency alone land you a good job position.
The Stallion 12 years ago

Are you fine? It seems like you are not yourself at this time. It is nearly midnight in my area. I believe your time is about that. Good night!

Are you fine? It seems like you are not yourself at this time. It is nearly midnight in my area. I believe your time is about that. Good night!
Ibby Australia 12 years ago

Kwadwo you see some people are born naturally stupid regardless their educational laurels.Look at people like Victor Owusu,Adu Boahene,Akufo Addo just to mention a few.I remember the first time i heard about the biometric reg ...
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Kwadwo you see some people are born naturally stupid regardless their educational laurels.Look at people like Victor Owusu,Adu Boahene,Akufo Addo just to mention a few.I remember the first time i heard about the biometric registration being discussed on the subshine radion in New jearsey(US).The above registration was taking place in Kumasi where it was alledged that the Asantes were saying that the Zong northerners were Fulanis and therefore would not be allowed to register,this was unfortunate.No body from the NPP big wigs said anything against such pronouncements.A level headed person like you argued on the radio show that he had northen school mates who were born and grew up in Ghana and don't know where their parents come from,so where should they call home? Now after the so called fulanis struggled and registered the NPP headed by Akof Addo then went to the Zongos asking for votes."Short sighted" as you said ,nobody in the NPP envisaged that if the so called Fulanis succeded in registering their votes would be needed or it was just sheer stupid Ashanti arogance.You see Kwasi Agyemang's thinking tells alot about his destinational up bringing and like the saying goes "No matter how you clean a swine (pig)in your home it would go eat shit and even sleep in it"I mean no matter how much resources is used to educate(degree) people like Agyemang they remain appalingly stupid in thinking.Kwadow what he wrote can creat a very big tribal problem.May we have more people like you to continue to talk sense into such imbiciles.
??? 12 years ago

U r an 2 region akan party--eastern and ashanti.

U r an 2 region akan party--eastern and ashanti.
john 12 years ago

This is a rather lame response!! The NPP ceded not the n0 1 but the n0 2 to Mahama and you think that is a favor done to non-Akans? This write does not know the history of the UP tradition is is supposed to be writing about? ...
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This is a rather lame response!! The NPP ceded not the n0 1 but the n0 2 to Mahama and you think that is a favor done to non-Akans? This write does not know the history of the UP tradition is is supposed to be writing about? Have ever heard about SD Dombo, and entente with Busia? Have you heard about Abeifa Karbo, Jato Kaleo? The last of the stalwarts of the NPP Victor Owusu did was in a different order from these northerners who worked to build the tradition. It's a pity that Ghanaians have not taken seriously the study of history; this is the kind of stuff we get. You note that both times the NPP won elections, they entered into alliance with smaller parties. That should tell you the import of the what Haruna was telling you.
England 12 years ago

You have just confirmed all the points the writer made of Akans. Considering your last paragraph, you've just looked down on other tribes. You people really need a lot more education .

You have just confirmed all the points the writer made of Akans. Considering your last paragraph, you've just looked down on other tribes. You people really need a lot more education .
Bomfaboy 12 years ago

What this passage reflect is the persons mind set which appears to be so twisted I cannot even begin to understand what he is trying to point at. In these day and age, and where Ghana as a whole and our political system has r ...
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What this passage reflect is the persons mind set which appears to be so twisted I cannot even begin to understand what he is trying to point at. In these day and age, and where Ghana as a whole and our political system has reached, it is unthinkable for any person to think about tribal politics. The article is historically deficient, and shows the lack of knowledge of the writer. The word UNITED PARTY should in itself teach this guy that he is completely wrong. Secondly, NPP is not an AKAN party, plain and simple. The fact that their major voting block is the Eastern and Ashanti region does not make the party an Akan Party. Why has this confused guy bought into the propaganda of NDC and illiterates? Who at all is are the Akans? Ha of of Volta region calls themselves Akans. Southern part of the Norhern region, has large population of people who call themselves Akans, Brong Ahafo, Central, and Western Regions are said to be Akans. Presently, greater Accra population probably has more Akan leaning people than there are Gas and Adamgbes. The time has come for our country to move away from such parochial and tribalistic thinking, and seek to reward merit based on competence, no matter where the person comes from. Wining an election by a party depend on numbers. Therefore to alienate certain blocks because of people who think like this guy is outrageous. I am convinced the large majority of people who affiliate with the NPP do not buy what this confused guy is saying. Let us developed a system that all that are qualified and competent compete on equal footing. It might take a little while but certainly such rhetoric does not help and should not be encouraged.
xkaze 12 years ago

He should wake up and smell the coffee. Look around you brother and see those next to you.what blend of leadership do you see and you still stand there naked and think you would be covered when it gets too cold? its only a ma ...
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He should wake up and smell the coffee. Look around you brother and see those next to you.what blend of leadership do you see and you still stand there naked and think you would be covered when it gets too cold? its only a matter of time and you would get to realize that you are the well bred sheep for their ill motive celebration. hope you understand brother. please don't force 'there to be there when it is clearly not there' or you are now also suffering from the NPP's reality sickness.
The Stallion 12 years ago

Some of this people think they are regarded as humans. The party is not yours, what are you doing there, asshole?

Some of this people think they are regarded as humans. The party is not yours, what are you doing there, asshole?
JONNY 12 years ago

ARE NORTHERNERS LISTENING TO WHAT THIS "AHENKWAA"WHO JOINED A CHIEF'S ENTOURAGE TO CANADA SAYING?.IS BAWUMIA WHO THINKS TITLES MAKE LEADERS ALSO LISTENING? .LIKE SOMEONE RIGHTLY ASKED WHAT THEN MAKES YOUR PARTY DEMOCRATIC?.K ...
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ARE NORTHERNERS LISTENING TO WHAT THIS "AHENKWAA"WHO JOINED A CHIEF'S ENTOURAGE TO CANADA SAYING?.IS BAWUMIA WHO THINKS TITLES MAKE LEADERS ALSO LISTENING? .LIKE SOMEONE RIGHTLY ASKED WHAT THEN MAKES YOUR PARTY DEMOCRATIC?.KWASI OSEI, NOT EVEN A JSS STUDENT WILL MAKE SUCH SENSELESS ARGUMENT. I REFER YOU TO THE CV OF DR ATUGUBA,THE NEWLY APPOINTED EXECUTIVE SECRETARY TO THE PRESIDENCY. WHICH NPP LAWYER INCLUDING AKUFFO ADDO HAS HAS THOSE CREDENTIALS. YOUR ARTICLE IS AN INSULT TO NON AKANS,STUPID.
The Stallion 12 years ago

What are you doing in that party? That party belongs to a particular tribe. Can't you read and understand? Fool

What are you doing in that party? That party belongs to a particular tribe. Can't you read and understand? Fool
walk a lone 12 years ago

Idiot,what article is this?Big fool

Idiot,what article is this?Big fool
Kofi Asaase- Asa----Mantukwa 12 years ago

You are very right but the issue is, can it be experimented to allow candidates from other areas/ Regions to lead the party?

For example, one loyal group which the party leaders should focus seriously on, is the Ga-speaki ...
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You are very right but the issue is, can it be experimented to allow candidates from other areas/ Regions to lead the party?

For example, one loyal group which the party leaders should focus seriously on, is the Ga-speaking base.

History has it that the NPP and its mother party have always had a strong affiliation/ ties with the Gas: For example, The UGCC had memebers like the late Hon. Mr. Obestebi Lamptey, Paa Grant and Mr. Ako Adjei and even now, we still have an NPP stewalt in the person of the current indispensable Chairman, Hon Jake Obestebi Lamptey, so if the NPP has tried and Asante,- Mr. JK Kufour, and Akyem, Nana Akuffo Addo, then, the next group that we have to consider seriously to pick a candidate from is the Ga speaking area, but the issue is, do we have such a formidable and charismatic candidature?

Now it seems the candidates from the North are taking candidates from the rest of the regions at ransom. There is the need to break this trend and focus on candidates from other areas.
The Stallion 12 years ago

They can't change. Ir is not like the UP time. This time the tribalism has eaten so deep into their bone marrows that they can't help it!
They will remain the way they are!!!

They can't change. Ir is not like the UP time. This time the tribalism has eaten so deep into their bone marrows that they can't help it!
They will remain the way they are!!!
Kofi Asaase- Asa----Mantukwa 12 years ago

How do you know? I do not reason and make such jumpy conclusions like what you have just done.

How do you know? I do not reason and make such jumpy conclusions like what you have just done.
Nana must go! 12 years ago

What are the core values of the NPP? To me it is party that stands for individual liberty and free enterprise. It is a party that seeks to create wealth and not distribute or destroy wealth. These are the core values that sho ...
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What are the core values of the NPP? To me it is party that stands for individual liberty and free enterprise. It is a party that seeks to create wealth and not distribute or destroy wealth. These are the core values that should distinguish the NPP from the NDC.
The candidate who is and was best suited to articulate this vision is Alan K. The party machinery doomed his candidacy.
The campaign to unseat President Mahama must begin now. The entire leadership of the NPP must be swept away by the winds of change. Two time Presidential losers never make it. Akufo Addo must cede the political scene and allow a post independence born candidate lead the party. There are peolple with the ideals of the NPP who stand ready to move the party in a different direction
Nana's defeat was forseen. He lost on strategy. Once President Atta Mills died, his runing mate Bawumia became a non-factor. If I were Nana's campaign Manager at the time I would have asked Bawumia to resign "on health" grounds and replced him with regional candidate from B/A. Politics is about wining and numbers. NPP simply played a B game against an A team.
The court case is a loser and Nana is trying to save face and take the party down with him. He did lose by at least 200,000 votes.
YAW 12 years ago

You will continue to suffer with your "we are an Akan party" nonsense.

You will continue to suffer with your "we are an Akan party" nonsense.
Okponglo Guy 12 years ago

It is popular among Akans but it also enjoys support in the North where the original NPP began and Greater Accra. Indeed, it was the party of the educated class.

It is popular among Akans but it also enjoys support in the North where the original NPP began and Greater Accra. Indeed, it was the party of the educated class.
Ghanaman 12 years ago

And since most Ghanaians are uneducated and belong to the uneducated class they have nothing to do with your party. We leave it to you the educated and rally with the uneducated party.

And since most Ghanaians are uneducated and belong to the uneducated class they have nothing to do with your party. We leave it to you the educated and rally with the uneducated party.
AKLD 12 years ago

Akan, also known as Twi [t??i] and Fante, is the ancestral language of the Akan people and the principal native and official language of Akanland, spoken by 99% of Akans in Akanland. Akan is spoken in Ghana, and among 30% of ...
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Akan, also known as Twi [t??i] and Fante, is the ancestral language of the Akan people and the principal native and official language of Akanland, spoken by 99% of Akans in Akanland. Akan is spoken in Ghana, and among 30% of the population of Ivory Coast. Three dialects have been developed as literary standards with distinct orthographies, Asante, Akuapem (together called Twi), and Fante, which despite being mutually intelligible were inaccessible in written form to speakers of the other standards. In 1978 the Akan Orthography Committee (AOC) established a common orthography for all of Akan, which is used as the medium of instruction in primary school by speakers of several other Akan languages such as Anyi, Sefwi and Ahanta.
The Akan people and those who have either lived around Akans or have absorbed Akan people into their population speak Kwa languages, of which Twi/Fante is just one. Twi–Fante consists of the following dialects:
Asante (Ashanti), which together with Akuapem and Akyem is commonly called Twi
Akuapem (Akwapem)
Akyem
Agona (commonly considered Fante)
Kwahu
Wassa
Fante (Fanti or Mfantse:Anomabo, Abura, Gomua) - Spoken in Central Akanland along the east coast of Akanland.
Brong - Spoken in Akanland Brong Ahafo and along the border in Ivory Coast.
The Akan Orthography Committee has compiled a unified orthography of 20,000 words.
The adinkra symbols are old ideograms.
The language came to the Caribbean and South America, notably in Suriname spoken by the Ndyuka and in Jamaica by the Jamaican Maroons known as Coromantee, with enslaved people from the region. The descendants of escaped slaves in the interior of Suriname and the Maroons in Jamaica still use a form of this language, including Akan naming convention, in which children are named after the day of the week on which they are born, e.g. Akwasi (for a boy) or Akosua (girl) born on a Sunday. In Jamaica and Suriname the Anansi spider stories are well known
okukuseku 12 years ago

This position is very unfortunate indeed from all fronts.Lets vote for our own rather than on policies is the worst that should be allowed in any democratic doctrine. What is this story of Akan base? For once lets move away a ...
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This position is very unfortunate indeed from all fronts.Lets vote for our own rather than on policies is the worst that should be allowed in any democratic doctrine. What is this story of Akan base? For once lets move away and the fruits will bear testimony. NDC went from Volta -Central - North and it has proved succesful.Very soon they may move to select a flag bearer from Ashanti later to Eastern and the tsunami of the 'our Akan base" voting en block for them would be the last straw.
You bet 12 years ago

As long as the NPP remains an Akan party, they will continue to win in only the Ashanti and Eastern regions (two out of ten regions) and therefore remain in opposition "til thy kingdom come". Amen.

As long as the NPP remains an Akan party, they will continue to win in only the Ashanti and Eastern regions (two out of ten regions) and therefore remain in opposition "til thy kingdom come". Amen.
Nana Yaw 12 years ago

If Kuffour had died during his first term, what would have happened to Alliu Mahama? The party's failure to choose Alliu for 2008 has created a deep distrust between the minority ethnic groups in the party. They will continue ...
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If Kuffour had died during his first term, what would have happened to Alliu Mahama? The party's failure to choose Alliu for 2008 has created a deep distrust between the minority ethnic groups in the party. They will continue to vote skirt and blouse for a long time!!!
Doobia 12 years ago

What a liability to NPP! Do not confuse Ashanti/Akyeme with akan. Whilst ashantis and Akymes are akans, not all akans share their political ideology and so not all of them will like to be members of NPP. The idea is to bro ...
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What a liability to NPP! Do not confuse Ashanti/Akyeme with akan. Whilst ashantis and Akymes are akans, not all akans share their political ideology and so not all of them will like to be members of NPP. The idea is to broaden out and give NPP a ntional "appearance" and appeal. Short and simple.
Jato P 12 years ago

I am very disappointed at your article. It will not help the NPP cause

I am very disappointed at your article. It will not help the NPP cause
WUNTIRA 12 years ago

The writer is being honest by admitting the NPP is Akan. However, recent elections in Ghana is proving the NPP to be Ashanti/Akyem party. Other ethnic groups have no business in the NPP. I pity Bawumia and other northerners w ...
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The writer is being honest by admitting the NPP is Akan. However, recent elections in Ghana is proving the NPP to be Ashanti/Akyem party. Other ethnic groups have no business in the NPP. I pity Bawumia and other northerners who think the NPP is a party for ALL.By the writer's logic, the NDC will dominate Ghanaian politics for a very long time to come because it is NATIONAL in character and any Ghanaian irrespective of ethnic persuasion can be given the chance to lead the party.
ALHASSAN 12 years ago

IN THE CASE AM DONE WITH YOUR PARTY, AM OUT, NO MORE VOLUNTARY WORK FOR YOU AM SOO DISAPPOINTED IN YOU. UNGRATEFUL APES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IN THE CASE AM DONE WITH YOUR PARTY, AM OUT, NO MORE VOLUNTARY WORK FOR YOU AM SOO DISAPPOINTED IN YOU. UNGRATEFUL APES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yaw 12 years ago

The issue is how do we win elections? NPP should strategise on how/who to elect as Presidential candidate not whether the person is and Akan/Ashanti. Please move away from this notion else this party is dead. Will only exist ...
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The issue is how do we win elections? NPP should strategise on how/who to elect as Presidential candidate not whether the person is and Akan/Ashanti. Please move away from this notion else this party is dead. Will only exist in a name. NPP is a party for all Ghanaians and not Ashantis only. Winning elections depend on how and who you elect as Presidential candidate.
Mani 12 years ago

an arrogant ashanti man with his usual arrogance

an arrogant ashanti man with his usual arrogance
Free SHS Advocate 12 years ago

This writer sounds like one of the numerous NDC footsoldiers on propaganda mission, what do you think?

This writer sounds like one of the numerous NDC footsoldiers on propaganda mission, what do you think?
ntafuorhene mahaama 12 years ago

I agree

I agree
mojingles 12 years ago

Those who argue that Bawumia should lead the NPP are just as misguided as those presenting the flawed contention that Akans are best suited to lead the party. What is important at this point of the party's woes is to review i ...
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Those who argue that Bawumia should lead the NPP are just as misguided as those presenting the flawed contention that Akans are best suited to lead the party. What is important at this point of the party's woes is to review its internal plumbiong and come with a leader regardless of ethnicity and push for a win in 2016...
ikee68 12 years ago

most of u guys are just blantantly stupid is not like the party call someones name and said u will be the leadewr of the party the selection policy of the party is by election so why dont you guy see that people vote for who ...
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most of u guys are just blantantly stupid is not like the party call someones name and said u will be the leadewr of the party the selection policy of the party is by election so why dont you guy see that people vote for who they think can lead the country at it best but not just only the party leadership have u all think about that and stop that idiotic akans this and that nonesense
DON PEDRO 12 years ago

WHAT IS THIS WRITER TRYING TO SAY? WHEN THE LATE ALIU MAHAMA IN HIS LIFE TIME AS A VICE PRESIDENT GOT THE OPPORTUNITY TO POSSIBLY CARRY ON HIS DESIRE TO RULE THE COUNTRY; WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM. SEVENTEEN OTHER AKANS ROSE TO CH ...
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WHAT IS THIS WRITER TRYING TO SAY? WHEN THE LATE ALIU MAHAMA IN HIS LIFE TIME AS A VICE PRESIDENT GOT THE OPPORTUNITY TO POSSIBLY CARRY ON HIS DESIRE TO RULE THE COUNTRY; WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM. SEVENTEEN OTHER AKANS ROSE TO CHALLENGE HIM TO THE BID AND SOUGHT TO TAKE THAT "PIECE OF MEAT FROM HIS MOUTH"
Fedi 12 years ago

I am a staunch NPP member but I beg to differ with you. This time around, you are spewing out thrash, garbage and rubbish!!! Are you saying that only Akans have leadership skills. Don't even tread on such grounds because all ...
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I am a staunch NPP member but I beg to differ with you. This time around, you are spewing out thrash, garbage and rubbish!!! Are you saying that only Akans have leadership skills. Don't even tread on such grounds because all the big guns will turn toward you; don't even tread on these grounds because you will be effectively singling out the NPP as a racist and biased party which Nana Akufo Addo has shown otherwise. It is rather charismatic and honest leaders who can transform our lives for the better that we need and even if such a leader is Ewe and comes from the Volta Region we will gladly embrace him. If, GOD forbid, that by the unlikely chance that we as NPP lose the case in court and Nana refuses to run again and the turn falls on Bawumiah, I, personally, will leave no stone unturned to make sure that he wins the primaries. So please do not belittle yourself with such nonsense because in your futile attempt to show your wisdom, which you seem to lack, you look all the more stupid!!!
IDRIS PACAS 12 years ago

NPP's appointment of northerners as vice was and/or is a disguise. Aliu Mahawa was only a vice de jure. And NDC is an all-Ghanaian dominated party evinced by its victory in 3 out of the 5 so-called Akan regions. Anyway there ...
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NPP's appointment of northerners as vice was and/or is a disguise. Aliu Mahawa was only a vice de jure. And NDC is an all-Ghanaian dominated party evinced by its victory in 3 out of the 5 so-called Akan regions. Anyway there is no Akan region in Ghana. Live peacefully in Canada and leave us to build united Ghana, Mr NPP and Akan.

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