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Election Petition: Winner asked not to celebrate

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  • kwame 10 years ago

    WHY SHOULD THERE BE A RIOT? FOR WHAT REASON. SC GO AHEAD AND PRONOUNCE JUDGEMENT.WE ARE ALL READY TO ACCEPT ANYTHING YOU SAY SO FAR AS YOU THOUGHT OF IT WISELY . I MEAN WISELY.

  • OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

    When Kwaku Baako informed us about the atrocities of Kwesi Pratt during PNDC Regime, some of us did not believe until the truth was confirmed during the NRC. Kwesi Pratt is the most dangerous Journalist Ghana had ever have, h ...
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  • I HAVE A CERTIFICATE 10 years ago

    OLD SOLDIER, DONT YOU THINK THAT YOU BORE READERS TO DEATH?

  • TerriblY Obsessed With Certificates 10 years ago

    He who has already eat, needs food not but what about he who hasn' ? A Spe cifiC rare pronouncement but understandable by even the fool.

  • OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

    *By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, PhD

    WILLIAM ATUGUBA: Counsel, what is your name
    PHILIP ADDISON: Philip Addison, My Lord
    ATUGUBA: You are overruled
    ADDISON: Yes, my name is Philip Addison, my Lord
    ATUGUBA: I said overru ...
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  • facts 10 years ago

    No matter what the ghanaian is always directed by gifts or tips if you like but Nkrumaist are always anti Busia and Dombo and their UGCC decendants. Ghana cannot move an inch ahead of the other African countries despite the n ...
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  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 10 years ago

    GOOD IDEA

  • SHAMO 10 years ago

    WE WILL NOT CELEBRATE, WE WILL HOLD NDC HANDS AND DINE WITH THEM, UNLIKE THEM WE WILL NEVER BE PARTIAL OR DIVIDE AND RULE WE WILL LIVE IN HARMONY

  • OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

    Author:SGT ANANI FIADZOE...

    Every civilized person in this world
    can be afraid of a thief, arm rober,a
    murderer and diabolical idiot which
    Tsikata is one, that is why we have
    Police whose duty it is to protect us
    fro ...
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  • papillon 10 years ago

    what difference will it make if the winner is not allowed to celebrate? Nonsense!

  • SHAMO 10 years ago

    IN NDC GOVT IF YOU HAVE AKAN NAME YOU CAN NOT VOTE IN ODODODIODIO! ALL THE GOVERNMENT FUNCTIONARIES GOES TO NORTHNERNERS AND EWES! NATION DESTROYERS

  • insight to the bone 10 years ago

    very true , Ghana is over but the pandora box of hegemony ,ethnocentrism , chauvinism , tribal racism , institutional corruption and veiled ideological hate camouflaged into left wing politics has been opened. it is only a ma ...
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  • Mahmoud 10 years ago

    "stand out firmly for justice, as witness to Allah.. follow not the lusts (of your heart), lest ye swerve, and... ye distort (justice or decline to do justice)" (S. 4:135).

  • Eastern Region Radical 10 years ago

    Fuck the NDC. I will celebrate. Criminals

  • Willam 10 years ago

    Old soldier may be a robot, programmed to release a stanza from a poem written by an unknown soldier not given to poetry!!!

  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

    A Tico trying to challenge an Articulator? Or potting Mike Tyson ( in his prime) against Bukom Banku? NPP are now witnessing the humiliation of their lead counsel. The marijuana smoker himself should have been in the dock!

  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

    The difference between Addison and Tsikata is this, Tsikata can take even 14 days to conduct cross examination on Dr. Bawumia still cannot find anything important to support his case only to shout on credible Lawyer Addison " ...
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  • ... 10 years ago

    SO TSIKATA IS A LAWYER?NO WANDER
    VOLTA REG LOOKS LIKE PARADISE IN GHANA WHAT TSIKATA DID WELL WAS SITTING ON PUBLIC TRABUNAL WITH AKRASI SARPONG TO MURDER INNOCENT HEAD OF STATES/CIVILIANS.HE AND JJ ORDERED AMADEKA, TSEPOR ...
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  • SLY 10 years ago

    Because the NPP people know they've loss so they are asking for no celebration. We wll celebrate! This is Ghana's victory.

  • UGLY CRIMINAL ASHANTI 10 years ago

    WHY SHOULD NDC,GHANAIANS AND ALL OTHER TRIBE A WIN OVER NPP ASHANTIS?NPP WOULD HAVE CELEBRATED THIS IN A TOP PROVOCATIVE MANNER,GHANA DOES NOT BELONG TO ASHANTIS AND FAKE NPP WHO WANT TO WIN ELECTIONS WITH WINNING 2 REGIONS O ...
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  • sankariwa 10 years ago

    gentleman, the day Ghana will standstill, then you will see your stupidity. sensible people are advising, listen to what this he-goat is saying. You are one of the enemies to progress. Maybe you have no job and that has given ...
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  • NPP GO CELEBRATE 10 years ago

    THIS IS SO CLEAR THAT THEY ARE SCARED OF THE MAJORITY AND THEY ARE TRYING TO FIND WAYS TO PREVENT THE WORLD FROM SEEING WHO THE REAL WINNERS ARE. WE WILL CELEBRATE FOR THE WHOLE WORLD TO KNOW THAT GHANAIANS ARE SMART AND WE W ...
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  • Frimpong, USA 10 years ago

    Yes, NDC will celebrate because we earned it. We dare NPP to try anything and they will taste real reaction.

  • Ofosuhene 10 years ago

    We go do ,NDC

  • Goza Go Toro 10 years ago

    NDC must celebrate in GRAND style. Afterall the celebration was defered due to acts of the silly cunts.

  • Egalitarian 10 years ago

    NPP immediately after the election declared themselves winners were preparing massive celebration. That was idiocy and illegal. No more such idiocy this time.

    We must show magnanimity all the time

  • UGLY CRIMINAL ASHANTI 10 years ago

    NOW IS THE TIME 4 MAHAMA TO PROVE TO THE WHOLE GHANA THE SECOND TIME WITHIN 6 MONTHS THAT HE(MAHAMA) IS THE COMMANDER AND CHIEF OF THE GHANA ARMED FORCES BY DEPLOYING THE MILITARY AND ALL SECURITY SERVICES TO DEAL FULLY WITH ...
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  • UGLY CRIMINAL ASHANTI 10 years ago

    JUST LIKE NIGERIANS ARE AFRICANS PROBLEM ALL OVER THE WORLD SO ARE THE ASHANTIS GHANAS PERMANENT PROBLEM ALL OVER THE WORLD JUST 4 THE SINGULAR REASON THAT BOTH COULD DO ANYTHING FOR MONEY USE FAKE CERTIFICATES,SELL CPCAINE,E ...
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  • Equity 10 years ago

    Ashantis have learnt nothing and have forgotten nothing. Kotoko supporters always go to matches with white handkerchiefs to celebrate victory and when thier oracle turns into miracle then they resort to war. Is time Ashantis ...
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  • UGLY CRIMINAL ASHANTI 10 years ago

    AShantis hold the key to Akan and therefore defeating them means a defeat of ALL Akans. This time we have to do what Rawlings couldn't do to STOP them.

  • humblekatongo @gmail.com 10 years ago

    we need peace

  • Akua 10 years ago

    Victory, victory Victory for NPP

  • UGLY CRIMINAL ASHANTI 10 years ago

    MAHAMAS DAY WILL SPOIL IF HE LOOKS INTO THE EYES OF THE UGLY FAKE LAWYER ADDOS FACE AFTER ALL WHAT WILL IT BENEFIT A HANDSOME MAN LOOKING INTO THE EVIL EYES OF AN ABSOLUTELY UGLY NANA ADDOS FACE

  • YES 10 years ago

    THESE NDC LOOSERS SHOULD GIVE US A BREAK

  • GbagbladzaV 10 years ago

    Why not? why should the victor grief like the vanquished? why then the court case in the first place? Let the winner celeberate and the loser gnash his teeth. and let commonsense prevail.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

    I believe that there should not be any celebration because we lack the common sense not to fight after a verdict is given. In Developed democracies, people after a verdict do not jump to the streets as we do. If jumping and s ...
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  • BANTAMA APREKU 10 years ago

    The onus lies on the Supreme Court to execute justice and there will surely be peace in the country. There should be no favours and if the judges are bold to do their jobs and not feel like Justice Kpegah, surely there will b ...
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  • UGLY CRIMINAL ASHANTI 10 years ago

    WHY SHOULD GHANAS HAPPINESS BE HIJACKED BCOS OF UGLY NPP PEOPLES PARTY WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE ATMOSPHERE IF THE RESULTS HAD GONE IN NPPS FAVOUR?WHO ARE THE ASHANTIS AT ALL WHAT IS IT THAT MAKES AN ASHANTIS SPECIAL IF NOT FO ...
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  • Yaw Amofa 10 years ago

    No celebration, the null-shittiest stuff of the century. Now the ghosts they unleashed are beginning to haunt them. Go ahead and celebrate, whoever wins this bloody petition.

  • I HAVE A CERTIFICATE 10 years ago

    WHAT NONSENSE IS THIS. WHOEVER ORGANIZED THIS MEETING,OF THE POLITICAL PARTIES IS WASTING HIS TIME. WHERE WAS HE HIDING WHEN THE NPP WERE GOING ROUND LOOKING FOR TOILET ROLLS TO TAKE TO THE SUPREME COURT AS EVIDENCE OF THEIR ...
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  • Nana Yaw 10 years ago

    Akuffo Addo has unprecedentedly created an atmosphere of political mischief which all losers of future elections will waste the nations resources at the courts. When the EC and the all local and international election monitor ...
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  • KK 10 years ago

    Let your common sense prevail over your political sense.

  • Nana Yaw 10 years ago

    The International election monitoring body and the EC are more credible than the supreme court which has been packed with NDC and NPP judicial activists. They are nothing but a bunch of corrupt nutbags just as Akuffo Addo and ...
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  • KWOOOODA 10 years ago

    EVERYBODY SHOULD ACCEPT THE OUTCOME OF THE SUPREME COURT

  • Goza Go Toro 10 years ago

    NDC will celebrate. NPP can come along and wipe their tears with NDC T-shirts, and chop with us kekeeeeeeeeeeeeee

  • NANA IS USING BAWUMIA 10 years ago

    TELL IT TO NPP ALL-DIE-BE-DIE NANA. THEY ARE THE DESPERATE ONES TRYING TO FORCE THEMSELVES ON GHANAIANS WITH THEIR 2 REGIONS VICTORY AGAINST 8 REGIONS DEFEAT. THEY ARE THE ONES GOING TO LOSE AGAIN FOR THE THIRD TIME IN 5 YEA ...
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  • Kwame 10 years ago

    Winner must celebrate and jubilate their victory.

  • humblekatongo @gmail.com 10 years ago

    what happened will happen.

  • humblekatongo @gmail.com 10 years ago

    we have to rejoice

  • Ansah 10 years ago

    Fantastic but the court should be truthful and surely we will cary our flag without any chaose

  • INTEGRITY 10 years ago

    FREEDOM AND JUSTICE.INALIENABLE RIGHTS TO CELEBRATE(not violence). NO ONE, or NO LAW on EARTH COULD HINDER any CITIZEN OF GHANA FROM CELEBRATING SUPREME COURT VERDICT. THE RESPECTED I.E.A COULD RATHER ADVICE STAKEHOLDERS TO ...
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  • 7B 10 years ago

    THE VISIONARY LEADER... Nana Addo for President

  • NYANSAYENA 10 years ago

    According to Observers now it's clearly that NPP Candidate NaNa Addo is Bad Looser.They Loose the Election completely period.they should come back and draw their plans well 2016.Looser is always Looser.

  • ' and Jesus wept ' 10 years ago

    Tempting as it is, let's be vigilant and exercise restraint while jubilating to show the world our maturity. Ghana forever.

  • Ofosu 10 years ago

    Dr. Bawumia has misled the NPP hierarchy miserably by showing gross misunderstanding of the election process. Research should have benn conducted to correctly interpret what constitutes over-voting and the effect of presiding ...
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  • kow Amissah 10 years ago

    This is not a bad idea. However it is obvious that there will be some amount of celebration. If this happens it should be controled. Let us for once behave as human beings. What i mean is that if a group of people are celebra ...
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  • Odiman 10 years ago

    is Mahamah bowing or hiding his face?

  • PROFESSOR THOMAS KUBI- McA 10 years ago

    PEACE REQUIRES JUSTICE
    ====================================
    INJUSTICE ANYWHERE
    ===========================
    INJUSTICE EVERYWHERE
    ===========================
    WHO CONTROLS THE VOICES OF THE PEOPLE???==EQUITABLE ...
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  • Alex Kojo Sammy-Paris 10 years ago

    name of Jesus is cleaning people....nd Amen!...

  • STEVE 10 years ago

    This is a very funny warning being sent across by telling the winner which obviously is NDC not to celebrate. A celebration is inner joy and it is very difficult to restrain people from not to do. When a soccer team wins a ma ...
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  • ANGEL of Ghana base in EU. 10 years ago

    By JUSTICE Ghana will have stability
    if SC judges rule with JUSTICE! Nothing but JUSTICE! JUSTICE!

  • Justman 10 years ago

    IT IS AUTOMATIC WHETHER SOMEBODY SAY DON'T CELEBRATE DOES NOT MATTER. CELEBRATION HAS ALREADY STARTED BECAUSE PEOPLE HAVE LOST APPETITE FOR THEIR FAVOURITE DISH ALREADY.WHILST PEOPLE ARE CELEBRATING PEOPLE WILL BE ON STRECTCH ...
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  • akwesi 10 years ago

    Stupid warning,why not Nana and CJ not to go ahead with petition,nobody fears death,nana and cj knew very well this petition is not for the nation but only for weep smoker who wants to rule the country whatever be.idiot NPP,i ...
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  • Kojo 10 years ago

    My people. Here we go again! Caution! Whatever you do, please don't start something you can't finish. To the so call politician and party supporters and those media personnel with big pens who write inflammatory articles. I ...
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  • MATIGARI 10 years ago

    WHEN HAS PEACEFUL CELEBRATIONS BECOME OUTLAWED IN GHANA? WE SHOULD RATHER ASK THE WINNING PARTY [NDC] TO CELEBRATE IN MODESTY, DEVIOD OF ANY MOVES BY THEIR SUPPORTERS TO TEASE THE LOOSERS[NPP].OH MY MOUTH BE GUN?

  • Afroman 10 years ago

    The only time that Ghanaians can can know true PEACE and get UNITED is when we have football tournaments going on. That'a when an Ashanti wo/man and Ewe wo/man sit together behind a tv set, shout and embrace one another in jo ...
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  • S.Dikaini 10 years ago

    While football brings out how nationalistic we are,It should not be the only avenue to unite us.We need to behave in a more mature way to accept defeats and wins,both after all are not ,the former teaches us how to improve up ...
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  • John Kpeglo 10 years ago

    How possible? It is sad to hear this fom this source! I think the question does not even arise! Whoever wins MUST CELEBRATE Ghana and her Democratic credentials! In fact, Afari Djan MUST clebrate at the end of all if he comes ...
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  • sulley shaibu 10 years ago

    Nothing will happen so the judges should be bold to pronounce their judgment without fears.

  • Kwasi 10 years ago

    Accept your stealing vendict.

  • concerned ghanaian 10 years ago

    Just take a good look at the picture(beside this article)of the President and the Petitioner.Whereas the President stretched his hand all the way to shake the Petitioner's hand,see how Nana held his hand back. This behaviour, ...
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  • Dr. med.William Acquah,Germany 10 years ago

    Every Ghanaian has heard and seen what is at stake.There will be no trouble if the Judges give the correct ruling.

  • ASUOYEBOA 10 years ago

    Use your so-called round table to highlight the massive corruption and devilish behaviors of our leaders. You think the masses shall remain quiet forever, NO.

  • paa 10 years ago

    From the picture the one looking down is the loser(NDC).

  • Yankyera 10 years ago

    This is ridiculous. You beat me and ask me not to cry. If my party wins I will celebrate. This is utter nonsense. What we need to do is to educate Ghanaians to be humble to accept defeat.

  • Opoku joshua 10 years ago

    When is the court going to declare the winner?

  • Simon 10 years ago

    Where were these people whe nana lost the election?.God will judge them one by one with their political lenses.

  • Ckm - Independent 10 years ago

    corruption starts at the presidency...he is corrupt. Corruption can never ever be eradicated in Ghana unless we had a president who is willing to stop bribing his way out of things and providing effective not just talks but e ...
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  • Asante 10 years ago

    why cant you mahama look at the face of ADDO?

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  • Kwame, Accra 10 years ago

    Nonsense this is going to be a gargantuan celebration for NDC. Give us a break and keep your advice to yourselves.

  • MENSAH 10 years ago

    THAT WOULD REALLY HELP GHANA'S STABILITY,AFTER THE VERDICT.
    I TRUST THAT GHANAIANS WILL ABIDE BY THEM TO ENSURE PEACE AND STABILITY,WE HAVE ENJOYED FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL,NO MATTER HOW THE VERDICT WILL GO.
    LONG LIVE GHANA AND ...
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