Election Petition: NPP is hiding something - Tony Aidoo

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• OBIBA-JUDAS 12 years ago

  WHAT YOU KNOWSHUT -UP.

  WHAT YOU KNOWSHUT -UP.

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• JAMES Y 12 years ago

  It is a fact; isn't, that irregularities have existed in Ghanaian parliamentary elections since the advent of democracy in 1992. The two major parties, the NPP and the NDC, have benefited by these irregularities.
  
  It is the ...
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  It is a fact; isn't, that irregularities have existed in Ghanaian parliamentary elections since the advent of democracy in 1992. The two major parties, the NPP and the NDC, have benefited by these irregularities.
  
  It is the reason why since the emergence of parliamentary elections in Ghana in 1992, each of the two major parties had governed the country for two terms. Firstly, for obvious reasons, Lt. J.J. Rawlings led the first NDC government of 1992-2006 and the second NDC government of 2006-2000. That was followed by the first NPP government of 2000-2004 led by former President K.A. Kufuor and the second led by him from 2004-2008. As a rotation NDC, again, won the elections under its then new leader, Prof Evans Atta Mills of blessed memory, who governed the country from 2008, but, sadly, passed away on 24th July 2012 - 6 months before he was due to lead his party for a second term election victory. His successor of the NDC, Mr John Mahama, in the goodness of the unwritten rotational arrangement, successfully fought and won the elections which followed in December 2012. All things being equal, and if past experience is to go by, Mahama's first administration is expected to end in December 2016. Paradoxically, this arrangement is unacceptable to the nation, but it is a convenient arrangement for the two parties and, perhaps, the country in as far as it serves its purpose.
  
  However, the marriage of convenience that has existed between the NDC and NPP, so far as rotation of government is concerned, was irretrievably broken down when Ghana discovered oil and gas in commercial quantity. The NDC second term of government under President Mahama has been challenged in court by the leadership of the 'other half', the NPP. Their quarrel emanates from a bad faith; it is probably feared by the NPP that because the NDC will be in power at the time of the 2016 general elections, its leader, be it Mahama or anyone else, will get the upper hand in handling the elections for, he has an advantage of being in government. And, if NDC wins the elections, it is meant it has been in government for 3 terms instead of the usual two. This the NPP does not want!
  
  Another scenario is that the discovery of oil and gas in commercial quantities has given the NPP leadership impetus to a strong desire to control its revenue hence, the fight to take political power away from the NDC. It is plausible to say the NPP's public statement of making the country ungovernable for President Mahama's government is manifest in the above reasoning.

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• Wofa Mebro 12 years ago

  Shut up! Mr. Monkey no fine.

  Shut up! Mr. Monkey no fine.

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• kantinka 12 years ago

  ARE THE PHD'S MAD? WHEN I LISTEN TO DR TONY AIDOO, DR KWABENA ADJEI, DR WEREKO BROBBEY AND MOST OF THE DOCTORS I FILL TOO MUCH OF EDUCATION IS A CURSE B,COS THEY DO NOT TALK THEY WAY WE EXPECT FROM THEM. NKWASEAFOO

  ARE THE PHD'S MAD? WHEN I LISTEN TO DR TONY AIDOO, DR KWABENA ADJEI, DR WEREKO BROBBEY AND MOST OF THE DOCTORS I FILL TOO MUCH OF EDUCATION IS A CURSE B,COS THEY DO NOT TALK THEY WAY WE EXPECT FROM THEM. NKWASEAFOO

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